Language French Followed by Maigret in Holland Country Belgium | Media type Print Originally published 1931 Genre Detective fiction | |
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Original title (Fr.) La Nuit Du Carrefour Series Inspector Jules Maigret Preceded by Maigret and the Yellow Dog Adaptations Night at the Crossroads (1932) Similar Georges Simenon books, Detective fiction books | ||
Maigret at the Crossroads (French: La Nuit du carrefour) is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. Published in 1931, it is one of the earliest novels to feature Inspector Maigret in the role of the chief police investigator, a character that has since become one of the best-known detectives in fiction.
Contents
Plot
The plot of the novel is driven by the murder of Isaac Goldberg, a Jewish diamond merchant, in a place outside Paris known as the Three Widows' Crossroads.
Characters
The cast of characters includes:
Translation
Originally written in French, the novel was translated into English by Robert Baldick and published by Penguin in 1963.
Film
It was dramatized as Night at the Crossroads in 1932 in a film written and directed by Jean Renoir, starring Renoir's brother Pierre Renoir as Inspector Maigret.