There are no maps reproduced in the book, and indeed I haven't found a single map in any of the hundred or so Simenon books that are lying around the house. (If you know of any maps in books by Simenon do tell me.) The map in the photograph on the cover of Maigret tend un piège shows the area in which the investigation is pursued. In the narrative a map of the area is marked with crosses indicating where police officers have been positioned: Jean Delannoy's 1958 film of this novel shifts the location from Montmartre to the vicinity of the Place des Vosges. The credits also show the location on a map: Remarkably, the style of these credits is entirely derived from the book cover, copying the shadow of Maigret's pipe looming over the map, and even the typeface used on the cover: I don't know of any other instances where a book's cover determines the style of the credits of its film adaptation, though there must be others. Maps figure at various points in the body of Delannoy's film: The photograph for the book cover is by Nicolas Yantchevsky, using the pseudonym Andrénic. More information on Yantchevsky and his covers for Simenon can be found on clicking below:
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