query: characters maigret and the yellow dog
supports: Maigret and the Yellow Dog ( French : Le Chien jaune ) is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon . Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (13 February 1903  4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret. Jules Amedée François Maigret , simply Jules Maigret or Maigret to most people, including his wife, is a fictional French police detective, actually a "commissaire" or commissioner of the Paris "Brigade Criminelle" (Direction Régionale de Police Judiciaire de Paris), created by writer Georges Simenon.
candidates: joseph jules maigret
answer: jules maigret