An open window

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An open window (original title La Fenêtre ouverte ) is a story by Georges Simenon , in which Commissioner Maigret investigates in the Parisian business world. The work belonging to the series of Maigret novels and stories was created in October 1936 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , was preprinted on November 7 and 14, 1936 in Paris-Soir- Dimanche and first appeared in book form in 1944 in the volume of stories Les nouvelles enquêtes de Maigret at Gallimard .

The German translation of the story was first published in 1965 by Kiepenheuer and Witsch in the translation by Hansjürgen Wille and Barbara Klau under the title The open window in the volume Neues von Maigret , in 1989 by Diogenes in a new translation by Inge Giese in 1989 in the volume Maigret and Stan the killer .

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Rue Montmartre in Paris (2012)

In the evening Maigret has a meeting with Monsieur Laget, head of the company Le Commerce Français in the Rue Montmartre, right at the intersection of Rue de Jeûneurs. Just as the inspector arrives - a number of creditors are already waiting in the anteroom with the servant - a detonation occurs . The company was under investigation by the Paris Criminal Police and an arrest warrant has been issued by the public prosecutor's finance department. Laget is accused of being very fond of alienating his creditors, who rarely see the money they have invested again. After they hear a bang in the office at four o'clock sharp, Maigret leans into the room and finds Laget sitting dead in the armchair, with a shot in the heart. His employee Descharneau calmly continued sorting his mail. The investigation reveals that Descharneau had been Laget's straw man for three years ; During the lunch break, when his boss slept, Descharneau tied him up and fixed a revolver, which finally hit Laget.

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After the first publication in 1944, the story was in the Simenon work editions Œuvres complètes (Lausanne, Editions Rencontre, 1967-1973) in Volume XII, in Tout Simenon (Paris, Presses de la Cité, 1988-1993) in Volume 2 and in Tout Simenon (Paris, Omnibus, 2002–2004) included in volume 2. In English it appeared under various titles, 1951 under Exclusive Witness (in the USA), 1963 under According to the Altar Boy (in Great Britain), also under Crime in the Rue Sainte-Catherine and The Evidence of the Altar-Boy . The story was published in Italian in 1966 under La testimonianza del chierichetto .

The story was first published in German in 1976 in the anthology Neues von Maigret by Kiepenheuer & Witsch (translation: Barbara Klau and Hansjürgen Wille), followed in 1977 by a book club edition by Ex Libris , Zurich. In 1989 it was published under a slightly different title ( An open window ) in Maigret and Stan the Killer by Diogenes (detebe 21741) in the translation by Inge Giese, and in 2009 it was included in Complete Maigret Stories .

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  1. Bibliographic information at Maigret.de