Maigret at the Crossroads

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Maigret at the Crossroads
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First edition (publ. Fayard)
Author Georges Simenon
Original title(Fr.) La Nuit Du Carrefour
LanguageFrench
Series Inspector Jules Maigret
Genre Detective fiction
Published1931 A. Fayard
Publication placeBelgium
Media typePrint
Preceded by Maigret and the Yellow Dog  
Followed by Maigret in Holland  

Maigret at the Crossroads (French : La Nuit du carrefour) is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. Published in 1931, it is one of the earliest novels to feature Inspector Maigret in the role of the chief police investigator, a character that has since become one of the best-known detectives in fiction.

Contents

Premise

The plot of the novel is driven by the murder of Isaac Goldberg, a Jewish diamond merchant, in a place outside Paris known as the Three Widows' Crossroads.

Characters

The cast of characters includes:

Translation

Originally written in French, the novel was translated into English by Robert Baldick and published by Penguin in 1963. In 2014 Penguin published a new translation by Linda Coverdale, titled The Night at the Crossroads.

In other media

It was dramatized as Night at the Crossroads in 1932 in a film written and directed by Jean Renoir, starring the director's brother Pierre Renoir as Inspector Maigret [1] and in 2017 in the later ITV series, starring Rowan Atkinson. [2]

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References

  1. Allmovie: La Nuit du Carrefour
  2. Rees, Jasper (17 April 2017). "Maigret's Night at the Crossroads review - 'more straight faces from Rowan Atkinson'". The Arts Desk . Retrieved 4 January 2020.