Maigret in New York (other English-language titles include Maigret in New York's Underworld and Inspector Maigret in New York's Underworld; ) is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character inspector Jules Maigret. The novel was written between February 27 and March 6, 1946, in Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson, Quebec, Canada.Biographie de Georges Simenon 1946 à 1967 auf Toutesimenon.com, der Internetseite des Omnibus Verlags. The novel was published in serial form in the newspaper L'Aurore, between 25 June 1946 and 7 August 1946, and in book form in July 1947 by Presses de la Cité.Maigret à New York auf der Internet-Seite von Yves Martina.
Synopsis Maigret somewhat impulsively leaves retirement to assist a French-born law student who fears for his father's life. Arriving in New York City, however, his client immediately vanishes upon docking. Acting in a private capacity, Maigret now has two mysteries to solve. Fortunately he has the assistance of a jocular FBI agent with a professional, albeit tangential interest in the matter, and an alcoholic private investigator in delving into the city's immigrant past. And Maigret with his methods proves not to be as much a fish-out-of-water as he may seem.https://www.librarything.com/work/452400/t/Maigret-in-New-York
Translations The book has been translated and published under different titles: in 1955 as Maigret in New York and as Maigret in New York's Underworld , in 1956 as Inspector Maigret in New York's Underworld, all translated by Adrienne Foulke; in 2016 as Maigret in New York translated by Linda Coverdale.
The first German translation by Bernhard Jolles was published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in 1956.Oliver Hahn: Bibliografie deutschsprachiger Ausgaben. Georges-Simenon-Gesellschaft (Hrsg.): Simenon-Jahrbuch 2003. Wehrhahn, Laatzen 2004, ISBN 3-86525-101-3, S. 61.
Adaptation Maigret à New York, starring Jean Richard and Raymond Pellegrin (1990).Film history at trussel.com.; retrieved 22 February 2023.
Literature Maurice Piron, Michel Lemoine, L'Univers de Simenon, guide des romans et nouvelles (1931-1972) de Georges Simenon, Presses de la Cité, 1983, p. 306-307
External links
Maigret at trussel.com
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