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Cecile Is Dead (French: Cécile est morte!) is a 1944 French crime film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Albert Préjean, Santa Relli and Germaine Kerjean. It is based on the 1942 novel of the same title by Georges Simenon featuring his detective Jules Maigret. [ 1]
Dec 29, 2015 · A dowdy young woman named Cecile comes to see Maigret so often that she becomes a joke at police headquarters. Is she in love with Maigret? Even Maigret has a hard time taking her fears and suspicions seriously. Until one day her aunt Juliette is found murdered, and Cecile is murdered too.
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- 2015
- Georges Simenon, Anthea Bell
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Also known as Cécile is Dead, this Maigret from 1942 is one of the best, taking place in Paris, with an unexpected presence towards the end of an American detective, over in Paris to observe, and whom Simenon uses as someone for Maigret to expound and show his thoughts and methods.
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Cecile Is Dead: Directed by Maurice Tourneur. With Albert Préjean, Santa Relli, Germaine Kerjean, Luce Fabiole. A woman keeps coming to Quai Des Orfevres to see Inspector Maigret about disturbing events in her household.Maigret and his colleagues are annoyed, until this woman is found dead and they realize she was on to something.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Maurice Tourneur
- 1944-03-08
Dec 29, 2015 · "Cecile is Dead" (previously translated from the French as "Maigret and the Spinster") features a murder investigation by Commissaire Jules Maigret of the Paris Police Judiciare that plays out in a dreary suburb. The book's villains are utterly unsympathetic in that their lives are driven by greed.
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- Penguin Books
- $12
Those black dresses that she must make for herself from bad paper patterns, that ridiculous green hat!”. In the dreary suburbs of Paris, the merciless greed of a seemingly respectable woman is unearthed by her long suffering niece, and Maigret discovers the far-reaching consequences of their actions.
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With trademark hat and pipe, Albert Préjean stars as the venerable Inspector Maigret in this first-rate Georges Simenon adaptation. A young woman named Cécile keeps coming to Quai des Orfèvres to see Inspector Maigret about disturbing events in her household. The esteemed detective and his colleagues are annoyed…until Cécile winds up dead.
