Novel by Georges Simenon
Maigret at the Crossroads () 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.
Premise.
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. In 2014 Penguin published a new translation by Linda Coverdale, titled The Night at the Crossroads.
In other media.
It was dramatized as "Night at the Crossroads" in 1932 in a film written and directed by Jean Renoir, starring the director's brother Pierre Renoir as Inspector Maigret and in 2017 in the later ITV series, starring Rowan Atkinson.
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