Charles Milou Knihy

When an ominous note predicting the time and place of a death finds its way to Maigret's desk in Paris, his investigation brings him to Saint-Fiacre, the place of his birth. It isn't long before a darkness descends on Maigret and the town, as the prediction becomes a brutal reality and the Inspector discovers he is not welcome in the place he once called home. As much a thriller as a meditation on alienation, The Saint-Fiacre Affair displays Simenon's unique and searing perspective of the struggles we all are forced to endure.

Set in the in the atmospheric and squalid streets of Paris, Maigret sets out to prove the innocence of a man condemned to death for a brutal murder. In another one of Maigret's unconventional and audacious plans, he arranges the escape of the condemned man in an attempt to prove his theory. The presumed murderer goes on the run across Paris and its suburbs, dropping misleading clues along the way and leading Maigret into the labyrinthine twists of the mystery. Maigret is in for more than he bargained for, as he encounters rich American expatriates, dangerous foreigners and their hidden motives.

Poil de Carotte est menteur, hypocrite, malpropre, paresseux et tetu. C'est en tout cas ce que dit de lui sa mere, qui cherche a le corriger a coups de trique et de punitions. Or, si Poil de Carotte a la peau dure, il a aussi le coeur tendre et la parole facile. Dans son recit eponyme, Jules Renard avait deja fait de lui le porte-parole universel des enfants mal-aimes. Dans cette adaptation pour le theatre, parue en 1900, il propose desormais un emouvant plaidoyer a l'usage des couples mal maries.