Maigret in New York | |
Title Orig: | French: Maigret à New York |
Translator: | Adrienne Foulke, Linda Coverdale |
Author: | Georges Simenon |
Country: | Belgium |
Language: | French |
Series: | Inspector Jules Maigret |
Genre: | Detective fiction, Crime fiction |
Publisher: | Presses de la Cité |
Release Date: | 1947 |
English Release Date: | 1955 |
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Preceded By: | Maigret in Retirement |
Followed By: | A Summer Holiday |
Maigret in New York (other English-language titles are Maigret in New York's Underworld and Inspector Maigret in New York's Underworld; French: Maigret à New York) is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character inspector Jules Maigret. The novel was written between February 27 to March 6, 1946, in Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson, Quebec, Canada.[1] The book was published in 1947 by Presses de la Cité.[2]
The book has been translated and published under different titles: in 1955 as Maigret in New York and as Maigret in New York's Underworld , in 1956 as Inspector Maigret in New York's Underworld, all translated by Adrienne Foulke; in 2016 as Maigret in New York translated by Linda Coverdale.[3]
The first German translation by Bernhard Jolles was published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in 1956.[4]