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Philadelphia Inquirer Gold Seal Novels (Sunday newspaper sections)
Harvest/HBJ "silhouette" Maigrets

 

#1 La tête d'un homme July 20, 1941

#2 Le chien jaune August 17, 1941

#3 Liberty Bar September 28, 1941

#4 Le fou de Bergerac October 26, 1941

#5 Un crime en Hollande November 30, 1941

#6 La danseuse du Gai-Moulin December 28, 1941

#7 Chez les Flamands March 15, 1942'

#8 La guinguette à deux sous June 7, 1942

#9 Au rendez-vous des Terre-Neuvas August 9, 1942

#10 L'affaire Saint-Fiacre September 20, 1942'

#11 L'écluse no. 1 November 1, 1942

#12 Maigret November 29, 1942'

#13 Le port des brumes August 22, 1943

Lawrence E. Spivak, Publisher
570 Lexington Avenue, New York
Bestseller Mystery
Jonathan Press Mystery
The American Mercury, Lawrence E. Spivak, Publisher
Mercury Mystery

 

1941 B24 - 25¢

1941 B41 - 25¢

1941 B69 - 25¢

1941 J8 - 25¢	1941 J18 - 25¢
1941? 31 - 25¢	1941 89 - 25¢

Feb 1942 141

"Introducing Inspector Maigret to PocketBOOK readers. This redoubtable, patient, unostentatious Inspector has achieved a popularity almost unheard of among the fictional crime investigators in the United States. He emerged a little over a year ago from the French language. Unlike the commonly accepted pattern of American or English fictional detectives, Inspector Maigret has a unique method of procedure in his cases. The author and his detective-hero are apparently more concerned with the study of crime than with its detection and punishments."

1943 N° 8 - 25¢

Contains two complete Maigret mysteries. In this new Simenon double-header Inspector Maigret steps out of his own country to go sleuthing. The first novel, "A Crime in Holland," finds him crashing like a bull in a china shop into the rigid decorum of small-town Dutch society. In the second, "At the Gai-Moulin," his mystery solving involves a provincial boite de nuit; a dancer called Adèle; a corpse found in a wicker basket; a Greek, Graphopoulos; a spy ring; and a pair of dissipated young men. As usual, Simenon accomplishes without effort what seems to be the hardest work for a detective story writer, the creation of atmosphere. And also both stories stress the Simenon talent for creating oddities of character over and above the skillful puzzling.

Mar 1955 - 25¢ 1188

Nov 1955 - 25¢ 1248

Sep 1956 - 25¢ 1338

1957 - 25¢ 757

Nov 1957 - 25¢ 964

"The cover painting for this book is based on the jacket design created by Anthony Palladino for the [Doubleday] hardcover edition. The original design was selected as the best mystery book jacket of 1956 by the Mystery Writers of America, Inc."

The title "Maigret and the Reluctant Witness" was apparently shortened to make a neater cover design. Internally the book shows the title correctly as "Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses".

1959 - 40¢ F-166

1959 - 40¢ F-198

Maigret's Christmas translated by Lawrence G. Blochman Journey Backward into Time translated by Lawrence G. Blochman Stan the Killer translated by Anthony Boucher The Old Lady of Bayeux translated by Anthony Boucher The Most Obstinate Man in Paris translated by Lawrence G. Blochman "All of the stories in this volume made their initial American appearance in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine."

Jan 1959 - 25¢ 1875

Dec 1959 - 35¢ A2063

Aug 1960 - 35¢ A2119

May 1962 - 40¢ K3

Feb 1963 - 50¢ R-825

Mar 1971 - 75¢ T2425

1964 - 50¢ D2578

1964 - 50¢ D2579

1964 - 50¢ D2580