Maigret's First Case (French: La Première enquête de Maigret, 1913) is a 1948 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character Jules Maigret. The book covers Maigret's involvement on his first case in 1913, shortly before the First World War began. It was translated into English, by Robert Brain, in 1958. References 1948 Belgian novels Maigret novels Fiction set in 1913 Novels set in the 1910s Historical crime novels Presses de la Cité books