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Maigret and the Vanishing Mr. Owen
Maigret is spending a few days between assignments avoiding a long trip back to Paris and then on again to his next assignment. The seaside resort is run by an acquaintance from earlier days in Paris, Monsieur Louis. Staying at the resort is a art dealer, Monsieur Owen, who is wheelchair bound from MS and accompanied by a nurse. Also staying is a flamboyant actress with her newly acquired second husband and a dog. There is also a gentleman whom Monsieur Louis describes as a "fixer" who "helps" people not favored by Lady Luck at the Casino. A unknown dead man is found in Monsieur Owen's bath with the actress's dead dog. Both the second husband and Monsieur Owen have disappeared. The actress faints; the nurse demures. Maigret who is on vacation and "not involved" even after Monsieur Louis's request for help get interested in the strange actions of the characters.
Writing:
- Georges Simenon
Release Date:
Sun, Dec 01, 1991
Country: BE | FR
Language: Fr
Runtime: 90
Country: BE | FR
Language: Fr
Runtime: 90
Bruno Cremer
Jules Maigret
Season 1:
Maigret learns from a shady acquaintance that a murder has occurred during a burglary at a dentist's home. Tho his wife has disappeared, neither the suspiciously uncooperative dentist nor his virago mother are talking, and there is no body.
Maigret is sent at the Border with Belgium to investigate on a shady affair.
Maigret observes a man dragging a corpse along the ground at night. The man is a judge; Maigret must discover the identity of the dead man.
A stripper starts to report a murder that has not yet happened, but leaves before making the report official. She is found murdered that morning. Complicating matters is the relationship she had with one of Maigret's assistants.
Maigret is called to the canal St Martin; a headless body has been found. He finds a café nearby with an uncommunicative owner.
Maigret investigates a murder at a crossroads in rural France. Everybody has something to hide, and he's got to find the guilty one.
A death at a luxury hotel gives Maigret plenty of additional headaches when one of the wealthy suspects proves to have a lot of local influence.
Someone is out to get Maigret into trouble, and he must defend himself vigorously.
Murder occurs in a family that has fallen from Grace. Maigret is on the case.
Louis Thouret is knifed to death in Paris, and Maigret must find out who did it.
Maigret must play a long waiting game to catch a big-time crook.
What began as a short trip to question an innkeeper in the Vendee turns into days as Inspector Maigret gets confined to the inn with the flu. Then, a guest is found murdered. The police cordon off the inn and begin a careful reconstruction of events, while Maigret conducts his own investigation.
Four serial murders in the Marais district of Paris. Maigret sets a trap. Pretending to have arrested the assassin, he sends trained plainclothes policewomen out at night as bait. Maigret hopes that the killer's pride will force him to act.
Maigret investigates a series of murders in a small town.
A child while is going to church to make an altar boy sees a corpse in the street. No one else sees that corpse, and two minutes later, that corpse is disappeared. Later the child claims to have invented the story. Maigret must find out, first of all, if the corpse is really existed or if it is a lie of the child.
Maigret is dispatched on a special murder case to the South of France with instructions from a very high source not to make waves while solving the crime. The homicide victim, an Australian ex-pat, was a hero in the French Resistance.
Maigret is spending a few days between assignments avoiding a long trip back to Paris and then on again to his next assignment. The seaside resort is run by an acquaintance from earlier days in Paris, Monsieur Louis. Staying at the resort is a art dealer, Monsieur Owen, who is wheelchair bound from MS and accompanied by a nurse. Also staying is a flamboyant actress with her newly acquired second husband and a dog. There is also a gentleman whom Monsieur Louis describes as a "fixer" who "helps" people not favored by Lady Luck at the Casino. A unknown dead man is found in Monsieur Owen's bath with the actress's dead dog. Both the second husband and Monsieur Owen have disappeared. The actress faints; the nurse demures. Maigret who is on vacation and "not involved" even after Monsieur Louis's request for help get interested in the strange actions of the characters.
When the wealthy owner of a pharmaceutical company is shot and killed at his desk with a plundered safe behind him, Maigret wonders if it was just a robbery gone wrong. Whatever it was, he's convinced the answer lies down the block, where the victim's ex-wife and her husband, his girlfriend and his wastrel son all live.
