Simenon, Georges

Summary: This is a new translation of Georges Simenon's gripping tale of lost identity. This is book sixteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. A man picked up for wandering in obvious distress among the cars and buses on the Grands Boulevards. Questioned in French, he remains mute ...A madman? In Maigret's office, he is searched. His suit is new, his underwear is new, his shoes are new. All identifying...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2015

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Simenon, Georges

Summary: Supersleuth Maigret investigates the identity of a derelict found murdered and the motive for his death.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1983

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Perec, Georges

Summary: "As his country is torn apart by social and political anarchy, A Void's protagonist, Anton Vowl, a chronic insomniac, is unaccountably found missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any indication, for any faint hint, as to his location. All that it brings to light, though, is Vowl's liking (uncannily similar to his author's) for parody,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvill 1994

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Simenon, Georges

Summary: "Maigret and his wife takes a much needed holiday to Vichy, where they quickly become used to the slower pace of life. When a woman, who they regularly pass by on their daily strolls, is murdered Maigret can't help but offer his assistance to the local Inspector, a former colleague of Maigret's."--Publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019

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Simenon, Georges

Summary: Inspector Jules Maigret travels from grimy bars to luxury hotels as he traces the true identity of Pietr the Latvian.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013

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Summary: Long-awaited and unseen anywhere for decades, Georges Simenon₂s Maigret (1960-1963) is the definitive adaptation of Georges Simenon's world-famous novels. This BBC television production stars Rupert Davies as Commissaire Jules Maigret, the dogged French detective. Though Simenon's books have been adapted many times, Davies's celebrated, BAFTA-winning portrayal won the approval of Simenon...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Summary: Long-awaited and unseen anywhere for decades, Georges Simenon's Maigret (1960-1963) is the definitive adaptation of Georges Simenon's world famous novels. This BBC television production stars Rupert Davies as Commissaire Jules Maigret, the dogged French detective. Though Simenon₂s books have been adapted many times, Davies₂s celebrated, BAFTA-winning portrayal won the approval of Simenon...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Summary: Based on George Simenon's classic detective novels and starring Michael Gambon, is equipped with rigorous logic, uncanny judgment of character, and, of course, his signature pipe and fedora. Inspector Maigret relishes the challenge of solving any mystery. Filled with dangerous crimes and elusive characters from the villages of rural France to the alleyways of Montmarte. Brings the most...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2013

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Summary: In these newly remastered HD adaptations of Georges Simenon's bestselling crime novels, international film brings the beloved Parisian Inspector Maigret to life. Sporting his pipe that seems a nod to Sherlock Holmes, the pragmatic and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth. To crack his cases, he peels back the veneer of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Summary: "Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire (Michel Simon) has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town (Viviane Romance). [He] discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him, and is framed for the murder. Based on a novel by Georges Simenon, Julien Duvivier's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Summary: A mild-mannered man visits Maigret, accusing his wife of wanting to poison him. Maigret then gets a visit from the man's wife, who accuses him of being neurotic. Is Maigret watching a domestic spat unfold, or is it a murder in the making?

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Summary: An ex-GI loves Paris and loves even more an alluring, but engaged, perfume-shop clerk.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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Summary: Julien is a former paratrooper, who now works for millionaire arms dealer Simon Carala. He is in love with Florence, Carala's wife. They plan to murder him and make it look like a suicide, but Julien forgets a rather important detail. Leaving the engine of his sports car running, he races up to the office to retrieve it, but fate intervenes, and Julien misses his rendezvous with Florence. She...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018

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Summary: Set within the vibrant dancehalls and historic crime corridors of 1940s Paris, a singer with "stars in her eyes" ignores the protest of her covetous husband and pursues a meeting with a lecherous movie financier. When her husband attempts to crash the rendevous, murder ensues. Enter the detective, whose seasoned instincts lead him down a circuitous path of alibis.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

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George, Nina

Summary: "Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Criss, Sonny

Contents: Don't get around much anymore (6:15) -- This can't be love (3:28) -- Early and later, part 1 (4:22) -- Early and later, part 2 (4:35) -- Once in a while (3:39) -- Saint Louis blues (4:59) -- Day dream (4:40) -- On Green Dolphin Street (3:26) -- God bless the child (6:07).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Gitanes Jazz Productions 2000

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Thielemans, Toots.

Contents: Winter in Madrid (2:46) -- Willow weep for me (5:33) -- Satin doll (3:20) -- Bag's groove (3:20) -- We'll be together again (3:48) -- Hot toddy (2:24) -- Try a little tenderness (4:03) -- Talk to me (3:21) -- Le trottoir (2:44) -- Honeysuckle Rose (3:00) -- Flirt (2:48).

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gitanes Jazz Productions 2000

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