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Maigret in Exile (French: La Maison du Juge) is a 1940 detective novel by the Belgian mystery writer Georges Simenon.
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Synopsis
The mysterious moves of bureaucrats have exiled Maigret to a small town in the coast of Normandy where it rains all the time and there is nothing to do except for playing billiards in the local pub and sniff the gel that the local inspector lathers into his hair. Then an old woman shows up with a story about a body in the house of a judge in the fishing village of l'Aiguillon and things get interesting. A young woman with a mysterious ailment (something to do with being over-sexed but Simenon never explains what exactly is wrong with her), a young man with a temper, a hotel waitress with a secret, and an ex-judge with taste and style.
Publication history
The book was published in France in 1940, just before the Fall of France to the Nazis. The book was first translated into English in 1978 by Eileen Ellenbogen and published by Hamish Hamilton in the UK. The First American edition appeared in 1979.[1]
Adaptations
A BBC TV version entitled The Judge's House aired on 26 November 1963. Rupert Davies played Maigret.[2]
A French television version with Jean Richard as Maigret aired on 1 February 1969.[2]
A second French television version with Bruno Cremer aired on 15 March 1992.[2]
References
Maigret Novels The Strange Case of Peter the Lett • The Crime at Lock 14 • The Death of Monsieur Gallet • The Crime of Inspector Maigret • A Battle of Nerves • A Face for a Clue • Maigret at the Crossroads • Maigret in Holland • The Sailors' Rendezvous • Maigret at the Gai-Moulin • Guinguette by the Seine • The Shadow in the Courtyard • Maigret Goes Home • The Flemish Shop • Death of a Harbour Master • The Madman of Bergerac • Liberty Bar • The Lock at Charenton • Maigret Returns • Maigret and the Hotel Majestic • Maigret in Exile • Maigret and the Spinster • To Any Lengths • Maigret and the Toy Village • Maigret's Rival • Maigret in Retirement • Maigret à New York • A Summer Holiday • Maigret's Dead Man • Maigret's First Case • My Friend Maigret • Maigret and the Coroner • Maigret and the Old Lady • Madame Maigret's Own Case • Maigret's Memoirs • Maigret and the Strangled Stripper • Maigret Takes a Room • Maigret and the Burglar's Wife • Inspector Maigret and the Killers • Maigret's Revolver • Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard • Maigret Afraid • Maigret's Mistake • Maigret Goes to School • Inspector Maigret and the Dead Girl • Maigret and the Minister • Maigret and the Headless Corpse • Maigret Sets a Trap • Maigret's Failure • Maigret's Little Joke • Maigret and the Millionaires • Maigret Has Scruples • Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses • Maigret Has Doubts • Maigret in Court • Maigret in Society • Maigret and the Lazy Burglar • Maigret and the Black Sheep • Maigret and the Saturday Caller • Maigret and the Dosser • Maigret Loses His Temper • Maigret and the Ghost • Maigret on the Defensive • The Patience of Maigret • Maigret and the Nahour Case • Maigret's Pickpocket • Maigret in Vichy • Maigret Hesitates • Maigret's Boyhood Friend • Maigret and the Killer • Maigret and the Wine Merchant • Maigret and the Mad Woman • Maigret and the Loner • Maigret and the Flea • Maigret and Monsieur Charles
Short stories The Barge with Two Hanging Bodies • The Affair of the Boulevard Beaumarchais • The Open Window • Inspector Maigret Hesitates • Jeumont, 51 Minutes' Wait! • Inspector Maigret's War of Nerves • Journey into Time • Rue Pigalle • The Stronger Vessel • The Old Lady of Bayeux • The Inn of the Drowned • Stan the Killer • At the Étoile du Nord • Storm in the Channel • Maigret and the Frightened Dressmaker • Inspector Maigret and the Missing Miniatures • The Unlikely M. Owen • The Group at the Grand Café • The Man on the Run • Under the Hammer • Death Threats • Maigret's Pipe • Not the Sort to Get Murdered • Elusive Witness • The Most Obstinate Man in Paris • Maigret and the Surly Inspector • Maigret's Christmas
Categories:- 1942 novels
- French novels
- Maigret novels
- Novels set in France
- Crime novel stubs
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