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The Best of Maigret: Shadow Play

on BBC Television

Dramatised by Giles Cooper from the novel "L'Ombre Chinoise".
A crime series from the novels of Georges Simenon.
Starring Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret
with Ewen Solon as Lucas
A BBC recording produced in association with Winwell Productions Ltd.
Last shown on May 13, 1962

M. Couchet is found murdered in his office - his safe rifled. There were three women in his life: wife, ex-wife, and mistress. Maigret finds that the murderer was not the thief, and that the thief did not profit from his crime.

Contributors

Author:
Georges Simenon
Dramatised by:
Giles Cooper
Designer:
Eileen Diss
Music composed by:
Ron Grainer
Film cameraman:
Hugh Wilson
Film editor:
Barry Toovey
Script editor:
Donald Bull
Producer:
Andrew Osborn
Associate:
Bill Luckwell
Director:
John Harrison
Chief-Inspector Maigret:
Rupert Davies
Lucas:
Ewen Solon
Concierge:
Nan Marriott-Watson
Nina:
Delena Kidd
M. Saint-Marc:
Michael Barrington
Mathilde:
Sally Latimer
M. Philippe:
Daniel Thorndike
M. Martin:
Robert Bernal
Madame Martin:
Anne Pichon
Celine:
Torsy Jane
Roger Couchet:
Richard Martin
Madame Couchet:
Ruth Taylor
Police Officer:
John Simpson

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