Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books, 40 West 23rd Street, New York, New York 10010. U.S.A. Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 2801 John Strect, Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R 1B4 Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New ZeralandThis volume first published in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton Ltd 1977 Published in Penguin Books 1984
This volume copyright © Georges Simenon, 1977 Translation copyright © Georges Simenon, 1977 All rights reserved
‘Maigret’s Pipe’ was first published in France 1947 under the title ‘La Pipe de Mai- gret’, copyright © 1947 by Georges Simenon, ‘Death Penalty’, ‘Mr Monday’, ‘The Open Window’, ‘Madame Maigret’s Admirer’, ‘The Mysterious Affair in the Boule- vard Bcaumarchais’, ‘Two Bodies on a Barge’, ‘Death of a Woodlander’, ‘In the Rue Pigalle’, ‘Maigret’s Mistake’, ‘The Old Lady of Bayoux’ , ‘Stan the Killer’, ‘The Drowned Men’s Inn’, ‘At the Etoile du Nord’, ‘Jeumont, 51 Minutes’ Stop!’, ’Mademoiselle Berthe and her Lover’, ‘The Three Daughters of the Lawyer’ and ’Storm in the Channel’ were first published in France 1944 in a collection entitled Les Nouvelles Enquêtes de Maigret, under the titles ’Peine de mort’, ‘Monsicur Lundi, ‘La fenêtre ouverte’, ‘L’amourcux de Madame Maigret’, ‘L’affaire du boulevard Baumarchais’, ‘La péniche aux deux pendus’, ‘Les larmes de bougie’, ‘Rue Pigalle’, ’Une erreur de Maigret’, ‘La vicille dame de Bayeux’, ‘Stan le Tueur’, ‘L’Auberge aux Noyés’, ‘L’Etoile du Nord’, ‘Jeumont, 51 minutes d’arrêt!, Mademoiselle Berthe et son amant’, ‘Le notaire de Châteauneuf’ and ’Tempête sur la Manche’ respectively, copyright © 1944 by Georges Simenon
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