• The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (French: Pietr-le-Letton) is a 1931 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. It is the first novel to...
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    novels and 28 short stories about Maigret were published, starting with Pietr-le-Letton ("The Strange Case of Peter the Lett") and concluding with Maigret...
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    Simenon began working on the latter novel (or possibly its successor Pietr-le-Letton (Pietr the Latvian)) in September 1929 when the Ostrogoth was undergoing...
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  • Lett (1963), a translation of the very first novel in the series, Pietr-le-Letton, first published in 1931. In the late-1940s she was secretary to Arthur...
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  • under Simenon's own name after he abandons pseudonyms, in the novel Pietr-le-Letton (The Strange Case of Peter the Lett), which begins serialization in...
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  • first appearance in print under Simenon's own name, when the novel Pietr-le-Letton (known in English as The Strange Case of Peter the Lett) begins serialization...
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    Simenon drew on the story for his 1930 Maigret detective novel Pietr-le-Letton (Pietr the Latvian). The siege was also the inspiration for two other novels...
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  • Schuyler – Black No More Nevil Shute – Lonely Road Georges Simenon – Pietr-le-Letton (book format) Upton Sinclair – Roman Holiday Eleanor Smith – Flamenco...
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    d'une œuvre: Les écrivains face à Simenon". Cahiers de l'Herne (in French). 102: 221–225. « Je tiens Simenon pour un grand romancier : le plus grand peut-être...
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