Georges Simenon has 78 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 10 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 65 ratings. The most-rated is Pietr the Latvian.
Maigret Sets a Trap
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Paris comes under siege when someone starts killing women on the streets one summer - and Maigret must hatch a plan to lure the murderer out. It was 4 August. The windows were wide open but brought no relief, since they allowed in even more warm air, which seemed to be rising from the melting tarmac, the burning hot stonework and even the Seine itself: one could imagine the river steaming like a pan of water on a stove.
©1955 Georges Simenon (P)2018 Audible, Ltd
Maigret Takes a Room
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When one of his best inspectors is shot, Maigret decides to book himself into Mademoiselle Clément's well-kept Paris boardinghouse nearby in order to find the culprit. 'What he thought he had discovered, in place of the joyful candour that she usually displayed, was an irony which was neither less cheerful nor less childish, but which troubled him.... He wondered now if his exultation wasn't down to the fact that she was playing a part, not just to deceive him, not just to hide something from him, but for the pleasure of acting a part.'
©2016 Georges Simenon (P)2017 Audible, Ltd.
Maigret's Mistake
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A young woman named Lulu, who has a history of brushes with the law and once lived on the streets of the 18th arrondissement, is found murdered in Paris. Maigret is called to the scene and soon learns that her boyfriend, a musician, has gone into hiding upon reading the news of her death. And when the inspector learns that the young victim was pregnant, he begins to suspect the case might be more sinister than he imagined.
©1953 Georges Simenon (P)2017 Audible, Ltd
Maigret and the Headless Corpse
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When a man’s headless body is discovered in Paris’ Saint-Martin Canal, Maigret is quick to answer the call. It is in this very neighborhood that he meets a strangely taciturn woman who runs a cafe. Her husband is away on a trip - or so she says. As is often the case, Maigret soon learns that there is more to the story than meets the eye.
©1955 Georges Simenon (P)2018 Audible, Ltd
Maigret's Dead Man
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That shoeless foot looked incongruous lying on the pavement next to another foot encased in a shoe made of black kid leather. It was naked, private.... It was Maigret who retrieved the other shoe, which lay by the kerb six or seven metres away. A series of strange phone calls leads Inspector Maigret through the Paris streets towards a man out of his depth amid a network of merciless criminals.
©2016 Georges Simenon (P)2016 Audible, Ltd
Maigret and the Loner
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People who've been here a long time have been talking about him. This morning, when I was having my coffee and croissants, it was all they were talking about. The old folks, even the middle-aged people, remember him and can't understand how he could have become a tramp. Apparently he was a good-looking man, tall and strong, who had a good profession and made a very decent living. And yet he vanished overnight without saying a word to anyone. The death of a homeless man in a condemned building in Les Halles leads Maigret on the trail of the vagrant's mysterious past and an event that happened years ago in the close-knit community of Montmartre.
©1983 Georges Simenon (P)2020 Audible, Ltd
Maigret Goes to School
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When a school teacher from a small coastal town near La Rochelle asks Maigret to help prove he is innocent of murder, the Inspector returns with him to his insular community and finds the residents closing ranks to conceal the truth.
©1954 Georges Simenon (P)2018 Audible, Ltd
Madame Maigret's Friend
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Madame Maigret takes the lead in a disturbing investigation in this new translation, book 34 of the Maigret series. Inspector Maigret's wife turns sleuth after a strange encounter in a Paris square leads her on the trail of a woman in a white hat and towards a grisly tale of deception and greed.
©2016 Georges Simenon (P)2017 Audible Ltd.
The Cellars of the Majestic
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The dark side of glamorous expat life in Paris is brought to life in this new translation. Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurse and a governess...in a suite that costs more than a thousand francs a day.... At six in the morning, she's strangled, not in her room but in the basement locker room.... In all likelihood, that's where the crime was committed.... What was the woman doing in the basement? Who could have lured her down there, and how? Especially at an hour when people of that kind are usually still fast asleep. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret and the Hotel Majestic. Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret books, his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.
©2015 Georges Simenon (P)2015 Audible, Ltd
Inspector Cadaver
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Maigret's old colleague becomes an unexpected rival in book 24 of the new Penguin Maigret series. In everyone's eyes, even the old ladies hiding behind their quivering curtains, even the kids just now who had turned to stare after they had passed him, he was the intruder, the undesirable. No, worse, he was fundamentally untrustworthy, some stranger who had just turned up from who knew where to do who knew what.
©2015 Georges Simenon (P)2016 Audible, Ltd
Maigret, Lognon and the Gangsters
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In book 39 of the new Penguin Maigret, the inspector learns that his hapless colleague Lognon is being menaced by some notorious American mobsters, and he makes it his mission to bring them to justice - despite threatening warnings that he is out of his depth. This story has been published in a previous translation as Inspector Maigret and the Killers.
©2017 Georges Simenon (P)2017 Audible, Ltd
Maigret and the Man on the Bench
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Inspector Maigret must untangle the web of lies left behind by a murdered man whose family didn't know him as well as they thought. When a man is found stabbed to death in an alley off Boulevard Saint-Martin, his identity card shows a workplace that had gone out of business three years earlier. As far as his wife knew, he still worked there, and she insists that the shoes and a tie he was wearing when he was killed 'couldn't be his'. It soon becomes evident that although he had a source of income, he spent most of his time sitting on a bench in the neighbourhood, often with the same unknown man. Can Maigret find him?
©1953 Georges Simenon (P)2017 Audible, Ltd
Maigret at the Coroner's
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Maigret grapples with the American justice system on a trip to Arizona in this new translation, novel 32 of the new Penguin Maigret series. The FBI man was convinced, in short, that Maigret was a big shot in his own country but that here, in the United States, he was incapable of figuring out anything.... Well, Maigret happened to believe that men and their passions are the same everywhere. Maigret is touring the United States to observe American policing methods when a visit to a coroner's inquest in Arizona draws him into the tragic story of a young woman and five airmen in the desert.
©2016 Georges Simenon (P)2016 Audible, Ltd
The Two-Penny Bar
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In this new translation of Simenon's twisted tale, a forgotten crime comes to light in the Parisian summer. The sunshine almost as thick as syrup in the quiet streets of the Left Bank...there are days like this, when ordinary life seems heightened, when the people walking down the street, the trams and cars all seem to exist in a fairy tale. A story told by a condemned man leads Maigret to a bar by the Seine and into the sleazy underside of respectable Parisian life. In the oppressive heat of summer, a forgotten crime comes to light. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels. Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret books, his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.
©2014 Georges Simenon (P)2014 Audible Studios
The Madman of Bergerac
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A new translation of Simenon's tense novel, audiobook fifteen in the Maigret series. "He recalled his travelling companion's agitated sleep - was it really sleep? - his sighs and his sobbing. Then the two dangling legs, the patent-leather shoes and hand-knitted socks... An insipid face. Glazed eyes. And Maigret was not surprised to see a grey beard eating into his cheeks. " A distressed passenger leaps off a night train and vanishes into the woods. Maigret, on his way to a well-earned break in the Dordogne, is soon plunged into the pursuit of a madman hiding amongst the seemingly respectable citizens of Bergerac. Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret books, his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.
©2015 Georges Simenon (P)2015 Audible, Ltd
Maigret and the Old People
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Maigret is called to the home of Armand de Saint-Hilaire, a highly respected official who has been found shot dead in his study by his housekeeper. After interviewing everyone concerned, Maigret is at a loss to the identity of the perpetrator until he comes across a series of letters from the past 50 years between the victim and a recently widowed woman. As Maigret uncovers the details behind the two's relationship, he gets closer to discovering the tragic truth behind the official's demise. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret in Society.
©2018 Georges Simenon (P)2019 Audible, Ltd
Maigret und der gelbe Hund
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Einer seiner spannendsten Fälle: Maigret in den Fängen einer Kleinstadt. Eigentlich wurde Maigret nach Rennes beordert, doch in Concarneau wurde ein Weinhändler angeschossen und in den Flaschen des Hôtel de l’Amiral wurde Gift gefunden. Es herrscht helle Aufregung in der Hafenstadt. Maigret beobachtet das Kommen und Gehen im Café des Hotels. Warum glauben die verängstigten Stammgäste, die nächsten Opfer zu sein? Und was hat es mit dem gelben Hund auf sich, der immer in der Nähe der Tatorte gesehen wurde?
©2019 Kampa Verlag (P)2019 DAV
Madame Maigrets Freundin
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Madame le Commissaire: Diesen Fall löst Maigret zusammen mit seiner Frau. Madame Maigret will zum Zahnarzt und ist zu früh dran. Vor der Praxis wird sie von einer jungen Frau gebeten, auf deren kleinen Sohn achtzugeben. Kaum ist sie wieder aufgetaucht, verschwindet sie auch schon wieder ohne Erklärung und braust mitsamt dem Kind in einem Taxi davon. Madame Maigret ist klar: Irgendwas ist hier faul. Ihr Mann macht sich auf die Suche nach der "Freundin" seiner Frau. Und Madame Maigret betätigt sich als Amateurdetektivin. Maigrets 34. Fall spielt in Paris.
©2020 Kampa Verlag (P)2020 DAV
Maigret macht Ferien
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Die Maigrets machen Ferien an der französischen Atlantikküste und der Kommissar langweilt sich - erst recht, seit Madame Maigret im Krankenhaus liegt. Er besucht sie jeden Tag und vertreibt sich die restliche Zeit in den Bistros der Hafenstadt. Bis er nach einem Besuch in der Klinik einen Zettel in seiner Jackentasche findet, auf dem er gebeten wird, Erbarmen mit einer anderen Patientin zu haben. Noch ehe er der Sache nachgehen kann, stirbt die junge Frau. Eigentlich sind Maigret, der nicht im Dienst ist, die Hände gebunden, dennoch beginnt der Kommissar, im Umfeld der Familie zu ermitteln...
©2019 Kampa Verlag (P)2019 DAV
Maigret im Haus der Unruhe
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Es ist spät geworden, die meisten Büros am Quai des Orfèvres sind verwaist. Nur bei Kommissar Maigret bullert noch der Kanonenofen. Endlich findet er die Zeit, einen überfälligen Bericht zu schreiben. Da bekommt er überraschend Besuch: Eine junge Frau, deren Blässe durch ihre schwarze Kleidung noch betont wird, bekennt sich eines Mordes für schuldig. Nachdem Maigret durch einen Anruf im Nebenzimmer kurz gestört wird, ist die Frau verschwunden. Maigret wird sie wiederfinden - in einem "anständigen" Wohnhaus in Montreuil, einem Vorort von Paris. Alle Bewohner haben etwas zu verbergen. Und alle haben Angst. Denn einer der Bewohner ist tot - er wurde ermordet.
©2019 Kampa Verlag (P)2019 DAV