There's a new detective out there, and his name is Maigret! PBS's newest crime-solving series, Maigret, is a modern-day retelling of a classic detective story (originally set in the early 1930s-1970s) ...

In an ambitious act of reinvention, Penguin has announced that it will reissue, in new translations, all 75 of Georges Simenon’s Inspector Maigret mysteries -- some of the bleakest, and best, works ...

Leslie Meier’s entertaining 31st Lucy Stone Mystery, “Bridal Shower Murder,” finds the intrepid newspaper reporter juggling a deadline amid murder and hosting a bridal shower for her daughter. Wedding ...

One of 20th Century literature’s most revered detectives came to life nine decades ago in a café beside a Dutch canal. Author Georges Simenon would later remember enjoying a drink while sorting ...

If you love British cozy mysteries, cold cases and crime dramas, there’s so much for you to stream on MASTERPIECE. Get ready for returning seasons of The Marlow Murder Club and Unforgotten; check out ...

For those who fear that Oprah may be right — that there just aren’t enough good books to go around these days — there is always Simenon. No, not the late mystery writer Georges Simenon, creator of the ...

“The Bar on the Seine,” by Georges Simenon, translated from the French by David Watson, Penguin, 154 pp., $12 “The Hotel Majestic,” by Georges Simenon, translated from the French by David Watson, ...

It is possible to wander about the Latin Quarter for days without noticing the second largest church in Paris. Saint-Sulpice is probably also the creepiest monument on the Left Bank. Its ghastly ...