Maigret Goes to School

First edition
(publ. Presses de la Cité)

Maigret Goes to School (French:Maigret à l'école) is a 1954 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret.

Plot[]

In the story, Maigret is called from his usual duties in Paris to investigate a murder in a small village located close to La Rochelle. A local postmistress has been killed and suspicion has fallen on the local schoolmaster. When Maigret gets there, he discovers a very inward-looking community, which generally hated the dead woman because she knew all of their secrets. ^[1]

Adaptations[]

It has been adapted several times for television. In 1992, it was made into an episode of an ITV Maigret series.^[2]

References[]

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