Maigret Goes to School

First edition
(publ. Presses de la Cité)

Maigret Goes to School (French:Maigret à l'école) is 1954 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. 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 hated the dead woman because she knew all 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

1. ↑ http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/georges-simenon/maigret-goes-to-school.htm
2. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0639857/