| Maigret's Dead Man | |
| Author: | Georges Simenon |
| Title Orig: | Maigret et son mort |
| Orig Lang Code: | fr |
| Language: | French |
| Series: | Inspector Jules Maigret |
| Release Number: | 29 |
| Genre: | Detective fiction |
| Publisher: | Presses de la Cité |
| Pub Date: | 1948 |
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| Preceded By: | A Summer Holiday |
| Followed By: | Maigret's First Case |
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.
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.[1]
Maigret's Dead Man has been dramatized five times: