Mr. Monday
Mr Montag (original title: Monsieur Lundi ) is a story by Georges Simenon , in which Commissioner Maigret investigates the case of a murdered maid in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine . The work belonging to the series of Maigret novels and stories was written in Neuilly-sur-Seine in October 1936 and appeared in the volume of short stories Les nouvelles enquêtes de Maigret by Gallimard in 1944 . The German translation of the story first appeared in 1976 in the translation by Hansjürgen Wille and Barbara Klau, and in 1989 in the new translation by Gertrud Lehnert-Rodiek in Diogenes' volume Maigret and the most stubborn guest in the world .
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Maigret has a death in the house of the doctor Dr. Barion - a pulmonologist - to edit. The maid Olga Boulanger did not seem to have died of natural causes; In addition, she was five months pregnant. The maid's parents, Breton farmers, have decided to appear as private prosecutors; their suspicions are directed against the doctor. Maigret is looking for Dr. Barion to confront him with the suspicion that the doctor first impregnated her daughter and then - after all, he was married and had children - killed. In the meantime, Barion had attended the girl's autopsy and carried out his own investigations. It was discovered that the intestines of the dead were riddled with tiny holes that quickly led to blood poisoning. A tropical doctor called in finally solved the riddle; the method that was used, it was "the victim of a certain amount of fine that, needle hard awns administer sitting on the ear of corn, among other things, rye . These awns remain in the intestine, the walls of which they gradually pierce, which is inevitable ”.
The doctor had established that the suspicious food came into the house through what was known as Mr Monday ; a peddler who got lunch every Monday and, as a thank you, brought cream cakes that were meant for the doctor's children. But had Dr. Barion forbade the children to eat the cakes; They were nibbled by the maid at a later date. The doctor is therefore pretty sure that the awns were in the tartlets. The doctor also reports that he is being persecuted by a neurotic neighbor, an Englishwoman who is convinced that Barion loves her and that she is expecting a child from him. Maigret is now looking into the question of how the awns got into the tartlets and will follow Mr Monday's heels next Monday . The old man gets his creme tartlets from the pastry shop , which he visits regularly. Maigret then pays the baker a visit and asks her about normal and unusual processes on the Mondays of the past few weeks. He learns that the English woman regularly ordered half English, half French pastries in the pastry shop, so there were frequent misunderstandings and pastries were sent back with the deadly awns.
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The story was first published on December 20, 1938 in the Paris-Soir-Dimanche newspaper (supplément, n ° 52). The book was published in 1944 in the short story volume Les nouvelles enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (Gallimard). The story is contained in the work editions Œuvres complètes (Lausanne, Editions Rencontre, 1967–1973) in Volume IX, in Tout Simenon (Paris, Presses de la Cité, 1988–1993) in Volume 24 and in Tout Simenon (Paris, Omnibus, 2002–2004) also in Volume 24. It is available in German translation in the anthology, All Maigret Stories ( ISBN 978-3-257-06682-1 ) published by Diogenes in 2009 .
Adaptations
Maigret chez le docteur , TV film by Claudio Tonetti , with Bruno Cremer as Maigret, Monique Chaumette as Eugénie, Laurent Le Doyen as Dr. Baron and Pierre Berieu as Mr Lundi, broadcast in 2004