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The Strange Case of Peter the Lett

novel by Simenon

Also known as: “Pietr-le-Letton”

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In Georges Simenon
…own name was Pietr-le-Letton (1929; The Strange Case of Peter the Lett), in which he introduced the imperturbable, pipe-smoking Parisian police inspector Jules Maigret to fiction. Simenon went on to write 83 more detective novels featuring Inspector Maigret, as well as 136 psychological novels. His total literary output consisted of…
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