Maigret was reputed to be based on Marcel Guillaume, an actual French detective, [7] although Simenon himself variously claimed not to remember the inspiration or that Maigret was influenced by …

Chief Inspector Maigret is a rising star in the Paris Police Judiciaire, relentless in his investigations, with an uncanny ability to get under the skin of the criminals he is chasing and a matchless knowledge of …

Meet one of fiction’s first police heroes, Chief Inspector Maigret, and learn how this iconic character deeply influenced the crime genre.

Oct 3, 2025 · An admittedly bold but understandable choice, PBS Masterpiece's six-episode Maigret pushes Patrick Harbinson's interpretation of Inspector Jules Maigret into the 21st century for the first …

Jules Maigret, fictional character, an unassuming, compassionate, and streetwise Parisian police commissioner who is the protagonist of more than 80 novels by Georges Simenon.

Mar 5, 2015 · In this article from our print edition, Peter Haining examines the legacy of Belgian author Georges Simenon’s classic fictional detective Jules Maigret.

Feb 18, 2025 · Masterpiece on PBS has just unveiled the first look at Benjamin Wainwright (Belgravia: The Next Chapter) as Paris’s most renowned detective, Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, in the …