Maigret on the Defensive

First edition
Author	Georges Simenon
Original title	Maigret se défend
Translator	Alastair Hamilton
Language	French
Series	Inspector Jules Maigret
Release number	63
Genre	Detective fiction
Published	1964
Publisher	Presses de la Cité, Hamish Hamilton
Publication date	1964
Published in English	1966
Media type	Print
Preceded by	Maigret and the Ghost
Followed by	The Patience of Maigret

Maigret on the Defensive (French: Maigret se défend) is a 1964 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. The novel was first published in English in 1966 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd., translated by Alastair Hamilton. In 2019, this novel was reissued in English by Penguin under the title Maigret Defends Himself (ISBN 9780241304068), newly translated by Howard Curtis.

Maigret responds to a call from a young woman in the middle of the night, but he then finds himself accused of raping her. He is forced to clear his name, and search for what had really taken place that night.

The story has been adapted several times for film and television. In 1993 it was made into an episode of an ITV Maigret series starring Michael Gambon.^[1]

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