My favourite detective: Jules Maigret, the Paris detective with a pipe but no pretence
In this series, writers pay tribute to fictional detectives on the page and on screen. When I first heard that Rowan Atkinson was to put on Maigret’s velvet-collared overcoat, I wondered if it was une farce. Johnny English in the role of Paris’s best-known detective, a bulky, stocky and rather taciturn policeman! What a terrible miscast, I thought. When I watched the film, I was expecting at any time for Mr Bean to take over – sticking out his tongue or exploding his pipe. I grew up with Maigret, Georges Simenon’s character. I was introduced to him via television, with actors such a...
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