Simenon

[seem^uh-nawn]

noun

1. Georges (Joseph Christian) 1903–1989, French writer of detective novels, born in Belgium.

Simenon

/ simnɔ̃, ˈsɪmənɒn /

noun

1. Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1903–89, Belgian novelist. He wrote over two hundred novels, including the detective series featuring Maigret

Example Sentences

But the setup does seem to invite the antipathy of longtime Simenon fans by mainstreaming their favorite character and making him more or less lovably peculiar.

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PBS’ ‘Maigret’ follows a long line of portrayals of the Parisian fictional detective created by Georges Simenon.

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This version is a curiosity, which gives us Maigret without the Simenon.

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Explaining the case's grip on the public mind, writer Thibault de Montaigu said in Le Figaro newspaper it was like "a novel by Georges Simenon" – creator of the fictional detective Inspector Maigret.

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Yet as I devoured title after title by the Cains and Dorothy B. Hughes and Jim Thompson, Georges Simenon and Leigh Brackett, I began to suspect that Greene had been wrong.

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