Belgian author Georges Simenon wrote dozens of novels about this pipe-smoking police inspector
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Inspector Maigret Is Called In Again - The New York Times  "I have not written a novel since December, which for me is a very long time," he said. ... novels," Mr. Simenon explained, puffing on one of the thousands of pipes that ... "Maigret was a police inspector, and he could go anywhere, enter any scene ... bowler-hatted, pipe-smoking father figure that he has his own cut of tobacco.
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Simenon: the father of gritty crime novels - The Connexion  IT MAY seem new that foreign crime writers dominate book sales charts with Henning ... the same 80 years ago when Georges Simenon wrote his first Maigret novels. ... Simenon's pipe-smoking, harddrinking Inspector Jules Amde Maigret has ... is not French: Born in Lige in 1903 he is the world's most famous Belgian.
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Georges Simenon | Belgian-French author | Britannica.com  Belgian-French novelist whose prolific output surpassed that of any of his contemporaries ... pipe-smoking Parisian police inspector Jules Maigret to fiction. Simenon went on to write 83 more detective novels featuring Inspector Maigret, as well...
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1000+ ideas about Jules Maigret on Pinterest | Srie, Georges ...  Georges Simenon: The Belgian Writer's 10 Best Maigret Books ..... He's one of a kind, insanely prolific (literally hundreds of novels under dozens of pseudonyms) yet .... his fictional French detective Jules Maigret, written between 1931-1972. ..... pipe-smoking Parisian police inspector Jules Maigret, hero of 75 novels by...
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The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin (Maigret #10) by Georges Simenon ...  Ivonne said: Although 18-year-old Ren Delfosse comes from a wealthy family ... Set in Lige, Belgium, author Georges Simenon's hometown, The Dancer at the ... but endearing local police officer) are still there, the novel certainly stands out for ..... Belgium policemen, all of whom seem to be obsessed by pipe smoking.
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Nocturne: A Novel of the 87th Precinct (87th Precinct Mysteries ...  Nocturne: A Novel of the 87th Precinct and over one million other books are ..... Two murders are investigated and near the end of the book the trail of both .... The inside joke is, of course, that the screenwriter was Ed McBain, writing under his real name, Evan Hunter ... The hooker dies by far nastier and more painful means.
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Professor Moriarty - Wikipedia  Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character in some of the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Moriarty is a criminal mastermind whom Holmes describes as the "Napoleon of crime". Doyle lifted the phrase from a Scotland Yard inspector who was referring to ... Moriarty's first and only appearance occurred in The Adventure of the Final...
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Thoughtcrime - Wikipedia  A thoughtcrime is an Orwellian neologism used to describe an illegal thought. The term has ... The Thought Police (thinkpol in Newspeak) are the secret police of the novel Nineteen ... In the novel, we hear about crimestop through the eyes of protagonist Winston Smith: .... George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Open Access articles | Open ...  "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe ... Paris natives Dupin and his friend, the unnamed narrator of the story, read these .... Often cited as the first detective fiction story, the character of Dupin became the...
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Diccionario de Detectives Ficticios - Scribd  431 Appendix E: Awards for Mystery and Crime Fiction . .... Use the ''See also'' references in each entry to nd that detective's literary ''relatives. ... THE FIRST DETECTIVES The initial period of Western detective writing. ...... at the body before police remove it. considered the rst ''hardboiled dick. ...... Steeplechase (2005).
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jeopardy/259_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  In a 1975 movie, the NYPD sent Popeye Doyle to this country; today it sends detectives to Interpol HQ there | France ... HOT "ROD"s | There's the signpost up ahead... it says "He was a WWII paratrooper ... NYPD | (<http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-04-06_J_05.jpg> Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from an NYPD station.)...
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Project Gutenberg's The Spiritualists and the Detectives, by Allan ...  15.--A DOUBLE LIFE AND DETECTIVES. *** These wonderful Detective Stories ... "Don't give the Gal that Ticket! ... Mr. Pinkerton decides to know more about Le Compte. ..... and if he should become a noted minister, he would get all her property, ... step was now heard in the hall--"quick, Lilly! do we understand each other?
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Wikipedia  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan ... The first story, "A Scandal in Bohemia", includes the character of Irene Adler, who, despite being featured only within this one story by Doyle, is a prominent character in modern Sherlock Holmes adaptations, generally as a love...
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87th Precinct series by Ed McBain - Goodreads  The 87th Precinct cops in Isola, New York: Cop Hater (87th Precinct #1), The ... 3.78 avg rating  3,801 ratings  published 1956  34 editions book 1 ...... Lullaby/Vespers/Widows ... Mystery Box Set Includes: Shadow Prey; Kiss; Longshot
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot Mysteries): Agatha ...  Editorial Reviews. Review. "Future scholars of the simon-pure detective novel will hold ... First published in 1920, The Mysterious Affair at Styles was Agatha Christie's first novel. It introduced the world to Hercule Poirot, Christie's Belgian detective, who would go on to be featured in 39 of her novels. The mystery begins with...
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe, 1841 ...  "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" was the first detective story intended as such to ... Edgar Allen Poe wrote his tale in Philadelphia in March 1841. It was first printed in April 1841 in Graham's Magazine, of which he was the editor. ... in the Life of Vidocq," by one J. M. P., Poe having become the editor of the magazine in 1839.
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C. Auguste Dupin - Wikipedia  Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin [oyst dyp] is a fictional character created by Edgar Allan Poe. Dupin made his first appearance in Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), widely considered the first detective fiction story. He reappears in "The Mystery of Marie Rogt" (1842) and "The Purloined ... Poe created the Dupin character before the word detective had been coined.
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Cardinal Richelieu and the Great Conspiracies  Cardinal Richelieu has long had a 'bad press'. ... when she talks about plots and conspiracies against him as simply a normal part of life. ... Borders of France 1648-59 ... and the King's own favourite, Henri Coiffier de Ruz, Marquis de Cinq Mars. ... A tragedy then, even if not quite the one written in Alfred de Vigny's novel...
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Free Flashcards about INVENTORS-J - StudyStack  WITH HIS FIRST MAIGRET NOVEL IN 1931, HE'S CONSIDERED ONE OF THE INVENTORS OF THE POLICE PROCEDURAL, GEORGES SIMENON.
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The Twenty-Year Death (Hard Case Crime #108) by Ariel S. Winter ...  A breathtaking first novel written in the form of three separate crime novels, each ... explain his fake Maigret's thought processes - something that Simenon never would ... The first one is a French set mystery very much in the mould of Georges .... three novels, the first of which, 'Malniveau Prison' is a police procedural with a...
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Queen of Crime - The New Yorker  Aug 16, 2010 ... How Agatha Christie created the modern murder mystery. ... After the war, the couple settled in a London suburb. ... As Agatha, in her thirties, lost her youthful looks and became .... Poirot, formerly a member of the Belgian police force, is retired, but he is willing, occasionally, to interest himself in a case.