Maigret et son mort (1948)

Maigret's Dead Man (French: Maigret et son mort), also translated as Maigret and His Dead Man and Maigret’s Special Murder, is a 1948 detective novel by the Belgian novelist Georges Simenon featuring the fictional character Jules Maigret. It was Simenon's 29th Maigret novel.

Plot

A man telephones for Maigret from a café and saying that he is being followed. Without finishing the call he hangs up. He attempts to call Maigret from different cafés, then the calls cease. Then a body is found in the Place de la Concorde badly beaten and stabbed. It was observed being dumped from a car.

Adaptations

Maigret's Dead Man has been dramatized six times:

In 1961, in the BBC television series Maigret with Rupert Davies, as "The Winning Ticket"

In the Dutch TV series starring Jan Teulings in 1966

In the French TV series starring Jean Richard in 1970

In 1978, in the Japanese series starring Kinya Aikawa as Keishi to satsujinshatachi ("Killers")

In 1986, for BBC Radio 4's Saturday Night Theatre as Maigret's Special Murder, starring Bernard Hepton

The second episode of ITV's 2016 series Maigret with Rowan Atkinson as Maigret.