| A Summer Holiday | |
| Title Orig: | French: link=no|Les Vacances de Maigret |
| Author: | Georges Simenon |
| Country: | Belgium |
| Language: | French |
| Series: | Inspector Jules Maigret |
| Genre: | Detective fiction, crime fiction |
| Publisher: | Presses de la Cité |
| Release Date: | 1948 |
| English Release Date: | 1950 |
| Media Type: | |
| Preceded By: | Maigret in New York |
| Followed By: | Maigret's Dead Man |
A Summer Holiday (other English-language titles are No Vacation for Maigret, Maigret on Holiday, and Maigret's Holiday; French: link=no|Les Vacances de Maigret) is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character inspector Jules Maigret. The novel was written between November 11 to November 20, 1947, in Tucson, Arizona, United States.[1] The book was published in the following year by Presses de la Cité.
The book has been translated into English under different titles: in 1950 as A Summer Holiday and in 1953 as No Vacation for Maigret by Geoffrey Sainsbury; in 1970 as Maigret on Holiday by Jacqueline Baldick; in 2016 as Maigret's Holiday by Ros Schwartz.[2]
The first German translation by Jean Raimond was published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in 1956. The new translation by Markus Jakob was published by Diogenes Verlag in 1985.[3]
The novel has been adapted several times for cinema and television:[4]