Maigret is called to the Hotel Majestic, a Paris luxury hotel, to investigate a body. The corpse of a guest was discovered by the breakfast cook in the basement. The body is that of the wife of a wealthy American - but to Maigret's surprise there is a gun in her purse. Maigret searches for the culprit among the hotel's employees and patrons. He follows up the handful of clues that could explain her demise.

When the corpse of a guest in a Paris luxury hotel is discovered by the breakfast cook in the basement, Maigret searches for the culprit among the hotel's employees and patrons, an investigation that leads him into a dark and dangerous world of drug addiction, blackmail, and prostitution. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian An Inspector Maigret mystery that brings the dark side of glamorous expat life in Paris to life In this riveting mystery from Georges Simenon, Maigret must investigate the murder of Mrs. Clark, the wife of a wealthy American industrialist, whose strangled body is found in the basement of an upscale hotel near the Champs-Élysées. Maigret’s inquiries take him from the endless corridors of the Hotel Majestic to the countryside of the Bois de Boulogne and sun-drenched Cannes, into a world of illicit sex work, drug addiction, and blackmail.

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I perioden mellem 1930 og 1972 skrev den belgiske forfatter Georges Simenon ikke færre end 75 romaner om den piberygende parisiske kriminalkommissær Jules Maigret. En forrygende serie, som Forlaget Rosenkilde & Bahnhof nu genudgiver i moderniserede udgaver. Her foreligger bind 18, som rummer romanen Maigret i hotel Majestic (1942). Maigret kaldes til det fornemme Hotel Majestic i Paris for at undersøge et mord. Hustruen til en velhavende amerikansk forretningsmand er blevet kvalt, men til Maigrets overraskelse konstaterer han, at den myrdede kvinde ankom til sit fatale møde med morderen bevæbnet med en pistol. Han opdager også, at den dræbtes mand har en affære med sin søns guvernante, og at faderskabet til sønnen er tvivlsomt. Maigrets undersøgelser bringer ham fra de endeløse korridorer på Hotel Majestic ud på landet i Bois de Boulogne og til det solbeskinnede Cannes. Der støder han på en verden af prostitution, narkotikamisbrug og pengeafpresning. Romanen blev filmatiseret på fransk i 1945 som "Majestic Hotel Cellars". Den er senere genindspillet til tv ved to lejligheder, senest i 1993. Fransk kriminalserie om den piberygende kriminalkommissær Jules Maigret, der har viet sit liv til at opklare forbrydelser. Serien består af 75 romaner og 28 noveller oprindeligt udgivet mellem 1930 og 1972. Georges Simenon (1903-1989), belgisk forfatter. Kendt for sin enestående produktivitet, der medførte næsten 200 romaner og mere end 150 noveller. Serien om den franske kriminalkommissær Jules Maigret står imidlertid i dag som hans betydeligste værk – kendt og elsket verden over for bøgernes særlige atmosfære blandet med kommissær Maigrets unikke greb om opklaringsarbejdet.

Georges Simenon's 75 novels and 28 short stories that feature Chief Inspector Jules Maigret provide us with a great deal of information about the French police detective--but only in small, episodic doses. As readers become acquainted with Maigret one detail at a time, he slowly takes on a flesh-and-bone realism--not merely a character in a story, but someone we would like to meet in real life. This book presents all the canonical facts and details about the detective and his world in one place, presented with tabulations and analyses that enable a better understanding of the works and of Maigret himself.