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Rowan Atkinson as Maigret

Detective Chief Inspector Maigret  If, like me, you like Rowan Atkinson in the role of the French Detective Chief Inspector or DCI Maigret you will enjoy the TV drama episode, called: Maigret's Dead Man , often repeated in the US and UK.  If you can’t wait for the next showing, then read the new Penguin translation that came out in March 2016 or at least take a free sneek preview on Google Play Books here:  It is a perfect story for movie-induced tourism fans and for literary tourism fans alike because of the precision of the opening scene in Paris looking across the river Seine.  Maigret is aloft in his office at number 36, Quai des Orfèvres. On the telephone, a man is speaking, he says he is not far from the police headquarters of the Police Judiciaire; the mysterious caller explains his location in the telephone booth of a bar:  - Just across from your office. A minute ago I could see your window. Quai des Grands-Augustins. There’s a small bar, you’ll know it...

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