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Solving Paris’s most complex crimes using unorthodox methods, “Maigret” on MASTERPIECE – October 5 at 9 pm
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Sunday, October 5 at 9:00 pm
Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, the invention of former crime reporter turned prolific
author Georges Simenon, inhabits a vividly realized Paris not often seen on camera that
takes us from the glitzy upper-class world of luxury hotels and mansions to local
bourgeois bistros and bars and the underground haunts of the professionally criminal.
Patrick Harbinson’s adaptation reframes Maigret as an unconventional young detective
with something to prove, a rising star in the Police Judiciaire, relentless in his
investigations, with an uncanny ability to get under the skin of the criminals he is
chasing and a matchless knowledge of Paris and its inhabitants. Faithfully and lovingly
married to Madame Maigret, Maigret heads the elite police unit known as La Crim,
responsible for investigating all serious crime in and around Paris.
The Jules Maigret series is the second best-selling detective series ever, behind only
Sherlock Holmes.