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| Author | Georges Simenon |
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| Original title | Le Pendu de Saint Pholien |
| Language | French |
| Series | Inspector Jules Maigret |
| Genre | Detective fiction |
| Publisher | A. Fayard |
Publication date | 1931 |
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| Preceded by | The Death of Monsieur Gallet |
| Followed by | A Battle of Nerves |
The Crime of Inspector Maigret (other English-language titles are Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets and The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien) is a novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon.[1] The original French-language version Le Pendu de Saint-Pholien appeared in 1931: it is one of the earliest novels by Simenon featuring the detective Jules Maigret.
In the story, Maigret follows to Bremen, Germany, a man who is behaving oddly and then commits suicide; his investigation leads him to a group of men, now having various careers, who knew each other when they were students in Liège, Belgium.
- ^ Dans les pas de Georges Simenon. Editions du CEFAL. 2003. p. 14. ISBN 978-2-87130-134-9.