Inspector Maigret and the Strangled Stripper

Inspector Maigret and the Strangled Stripper (original French-language title Maigret au "Picratt's") is a detective novel by the Belgian crime writer Georges Simenon, featuring the author's most celebrated character Inspector Maigret. The book was published at the end of 1950, and was later translated into English by Cornelia Schaeffer as Inspector Maigret and the Strangled Stripper and by Daphne Woodward as Maigret in Montmartre. The plot of the novel revolves around the murder of a stripper called Arlette, and the novel is noted for its depiction of the seedy nightlife of the Montmartre district in Paris.

The novel has been adapted several times for TV and film.

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