Georges Simenon
Georges Simenon (1903-1989) was a Belgian author of crime fiction, best known for his novels featuring his character Jules Maigret. Simenon is the author of close to 200 novels in his native language of French, most of which have been translated into English. Likewise, his novels have been adapted into nearly 200 different film adaptations. Georges got his start writing for the newspaper Gazette de Liege at only 16 years old. During his lifetime, he spent time living in Belgium, France, Canada, the United States and finally in Switzerland – where he died in 1989 of natural causes.

Georges Simenon’s first novel was titled Au Pont des Arches and was published in French in 1921 under the pen name of G. Sim. Below is a list of Georges Simenon’s books in order of when they were released:

Publication Order of Inspector Maigret Books

Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett / Pietr the Latvian(1931)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret Meets a Milord / The Carter of 'La Providence'(1931)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Death of Monsieur Gallet / The Late Monsieur Gallet / Maigret Stonewalled(1931)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien / The Crime of Inspector Maigret / Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets(1931)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Battle of Nerves/ A Man\'s Head / Maigret Bides His Time / The Patience of Maigret / Maigret\'s Patience(1931)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Yellow Dog / Maigret and the Concarneau Murders(1931)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret at the Crossroads / The Night at the Crossroads(1931)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret in Holland/ A Crime in Holland(1931)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sailors' Rendezvous / Maigret Answers a Plea / The Grand Banks Cafe(1931)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin / Maigret at the Gai-Moulin(1931)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Tavern by the Seine / The Two-Penny Bar(1931)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Shadow Puppet / Maigret Mystified(1932)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret Goes Home / The Saint-Fiacre Affair / Maigret on Home Ground / Maigret and the Countess(1932)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Flemish Shop / The Flemish House(1932)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Death of a Harbor-Master / Misty Harbour / Maigret and Monsieur Labbe(1932)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Madman of Bergerac(1932)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Liberty Bar / Maigret on the Riviera(1932)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lock No. 1 / The Lock at Charenton(1933)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret / Maigret Returns(1934)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Cellars of the Majestic / Maigret and the Hotel Majestic(1942)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Judge's House / Maigret in Exile(1942)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Spinster / Cécile is Dead(1942)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Fortuneteller / To Any Lengths / Signed, Picpus(1944)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Félicie / Maigret and the Toy Village(1944)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Inspector Cadaver / Maigret's Rival(1944)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret Gets Angry / Maigret in Retirement(1947)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret in New York / Maigret in New York's Underworld(1947)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret's Holiday / A Summer Holiday / No Vacation for Maigret(1948)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret's Dead Man / Maigret's Special Murder(1948)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret's First Case(1949)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
My Friend Maigret / The Methods of Maigret(1949)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret at the Coroner's / Maigret and the Coroner(1949)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Old Lady(1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Madame Maigret's Own Case / The Friend of Madame Maigret / Madame Maigret's Friend(1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret's Memoirs(1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret in Montmartre / Maigret and the Strangled Stripper / Maigret at Picratt's(1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret Takes a Room / Maigret Rents a Room(1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Burglar's Wife / Maigret and the Tall Woman(1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Gangsters / Inspector Maigret and the Killers / Maigret, Lognon and the Gangsters(1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret's Revolver(1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Man on the Bench / Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard(1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret Afraid / Maigret Is Afraid(1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret's Mistake(1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret Goes to School(1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Calame Report / Maigret and the Minister(1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Dead Girl / Maigret and the Young Girl(1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Headless Corpse(1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret Sets a Trap(1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret's Failure(1956)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret Enjoys Himself / Maigret's Little Joke / None of Maigret's Business(1957)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret Travels / Maigret and the Millionaires(1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret Has Scruples / Maigret's Doubts(1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses(1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret's Secret / Maigret Has Doubts(1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret in Court(1960)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Old People / Maigret in Society(1960)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Idle Burglar / Maigret and the Lazy Burglar(1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Black Sheep / Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse(1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Saturday Caller(1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Tramp / Maigret and the Dosser / Maigret and the Bum(1963)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret's Fury / Maigret Loses His Temper / Maigret's Anger(1963)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Ghost / Maigret and the Apparition(1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret on the Defensive / Maigret Holds His Own / Maigret Defends Himself(1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Nahour Case(1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Pickpocket / Maigret's Pickpocket(1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret in Vichy / Maigret Takes the Waters(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret Hesitates(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret's Boyhood Friend / Maigret's Childhood Friend(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Killer(1969)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Wine Merchant(1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Madwoman / Maigret\'s Madwoman(1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Loner(1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and the Informer / Maigret and the Flea(1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret and Monsieur Charles(1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Inspector Maigret Short Story Collections

Maigret's Pipe: Seventeen Stories(1945)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret et les petit cochons sans queue(1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maigret's Christmas(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Girl with a Squint(1931)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Engagement(1933)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tropic Moon(1933)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Window Over the Way(1933)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Lodger(1934)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Long Exile(1935)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Donadieu's Will(1936)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By(1938)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Girl In Waiting(1938)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Three Crimes(1938)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Strangers in the House(1940)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Widow(1942)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Truth About Bebe Donge(1942)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Across the Street(1942)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Suspect(1944)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Monsieur Monde Vanishes(1945)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Three Bedrooms in Manhattan(1946)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Act of Passion(1946)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mahé Circle(1946)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death of a Nobody(1947)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pedigree(1948)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Snow Was Dirty(1948)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Magnet of Doom(1948)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Bottom Of The Bottle(1949)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Four Days in a Lifetime(1949)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Pitards(1949)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Strange Inheritance(1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Heart of a Man(1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A New Lease On Life(1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Burgomaster of Furnes(1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Escape in Vain(1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Havoc by Accident(1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
On the danger line(1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Belle(1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In Two Latitudes(1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Trial of Bebe Donge(1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dirty Snow(1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Red Lights(1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Iron Staircase(1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Watchmaker of Everton(1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Clockmaker(1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Big Bob(1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Accomplices(1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Rules of the Game(1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Burial of Monsieur Bouvet(1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Fugitive(1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Sense of Guilt(1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Little Man From Archangel(1956)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Stowaway(1957)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sunday(1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The President(1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Son(1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Widower(1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Grandmother(1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Negro(1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Young Cardinaud(1959)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Blue Room(1960)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Betty(1960)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Justice(1960)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Family Lie(1960)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Train(1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Striptease(1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Poisoned Relations(1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The hatter's ghosts(1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Door(1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The House on Quai Notre Dame(1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Others(1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Bells of Bicetre(1963)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Magician(1963)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Inquest on Bouvet(1963)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Man With the Little Dog(1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Venice Train(1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Survivors(1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Black Rain(1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ticket of Leave(1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Cat(1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Old Man Dies(1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mouse(1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fate of the Malous(1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Little Saint(1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Brothers Rico(1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Reckoning(1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The neighbours(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Prison(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Premier(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The confessional.(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Patient(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Witnesses(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Uncle Charles Has Locked Himself in(1969)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Uncle Charles(1969)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
November(1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Rich Man(1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Enigmas(1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Glass Cage(1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Innocents(1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Disappearance Of Odile(1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Girl in His Past / Le temps d'Anaïs(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Nightclub(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The White Horse Inn(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Little Doctor(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Outlaw(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Murderer(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Hand(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Simenon's Paris(1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
When I Was Old(1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Letter to My Mother(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Intimate Memoirs: Including Marie-Jo's Book(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Inspector Maigret Short Stories/Novellas

L'Étoile du Nord(1938)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

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Notes: The Strange Case of Peter the Lett was also published as The Case of Peter the Lett and Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett. The Crime at Lock 14 was also titled Maigret Meets a Milord and Lock 14. The Death of Monsieur Gallet was also published as Maigret Stonewalled. The Crime of Inspector Maigret is also known as Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets. A Battle of Nerves is also known as Maigret’s War of Nerves and A Man’s Head. A Face for a Clue is also known as Maigret and the Concarneau Murders, Maigret and the Yellow Dog and as The Yellow Dog. A Crime in Holland is also known as Maigret in Holland. The Sailor’s Rendezvous is also known as Maigret Answers a Plea as well as The Grand Banks Cafe. Maigret at the Gai Moulin is also known as At the Gai Moulin. Maigret and the Tavern by the Seine is also known as Guinguette by the Seine, Maigret to the Rescue, A Spot by the Seine and The Bar on the Seine. Maigret Mystified was also published as The Shadow in the Courtyard. Maigret and the Countess is also known as The Saint-Fiacre Affair, Maigret Goes Home and Maigret on Home Ground.

Maigret and the Flemish Shop was also titled as The Flemish Shop. Death of a Harbour Master was also published under the title of Maigret and the Death of a Harbor Master. Liberty Bar is also known as Maigret on the Riviera. The Lock at Charenton is also known as Maigret Sits It Out and Lock No. 1. Maigret and the Hotel Majestic is also titled The Hotel Majestic. To Any Lengths is also known as Maigret and the Fortuneteller. Maigret’s Rival is also known as Inspector Cadaver. Maigret in New York is also known as Maigret in New York’s Underworld. A Summer Holiday is also known as No Vacation for Maigret and Maigret on Holiday. Maigret’s Dead Man is also known as Maigret’s Special Murder. My Friend Maigret was also published under the title of The Methods of Maigret.

Madame Maigret’s Own Case is also known as Madame Maigret’s Friend and The Friend of Madame Maigret. Maigret and the Strangled Stripper is also known as Maigret in Montmartre. Maigret Takes a Room was also published as Maigret Rents a Room. Inspector Maigret and the Killers was also published as Maigret and the Gangsters. Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard was also published as Maigret and the Man on the Bench and The Man on the Boulevard. Inspector Maigret and the Dead Girl is also known as Maigret and the Young Girl. Maigret and the Minister was also published under the title Maigret and the Calame Report. Maigret’s Little Joke is also known as None of Maigret’s Business. Maigret and the Lazy Burglar is also known as Maigret and the Idle Burglar.

Maigret and the Dosser is also known as Maigret and the Bum. Maigret and the Ghost was also titled Maigret and the Apparition. The Patience of Maigret was also titled Maigret Bides His Time. Maigret’s Pickpocket is also known as Maigret and the Pickpocket. Maigret Takes the Waters was re-titled Maigret in Vichy. Maigret and the Flea was also published as Maigret and the Informer. The Fugitive was also published under the title of Account Unsettled. Red Lights is also known as The Hitchhiker. The Hatter’s Ghost was also published as The Hatter’s Phantoms. Window Over the Way is also known as Danger Ashore. The Country Doctor is also known as The Delivery. Dirty Snow is also known as The Stain on the Snow.

Georges Simenon Synopsis: In Dirty Snow by Georges Simenon, Frank Friedmaier is a 19 year-old who lives in an occupied country where he gets by as a pimp, thug, thief and a murderer. The novel was originally published as The Stain on the Snow.

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