"Maigret and the Yellow Dog" - Maigret unravels mystery where a dog shadows every crime.

Описание: Classic Old Time Radio, Vintage radio shows, the Golden Age of radio, murder, mystery, drama, comedy, sci-fi, westerns.

In the coastal town of Concarneau, a local wine merchant is shot outside a café, and the only witness is a mysterious yellow dog lurking nearby. As fear grips the town, Maigret arrives to investigate a string of unsettling events—including poisonings, disappearances, and the dog’s eerie presence at each scene. The townspeople whisper of curses and conspiracies, but Maigret suspects a more human motive behind the chaos.

With his usual calm and methodical approach, Maigret peels back layers of provincial gossip and paranoia to uncover a tangled web of jealousy, greed, and revenge. The yellow dog, once seen as an omen, becomes a silent clue in a case where appearances deceive and danger hides in plain sight. As Maigret closes in, the truth proves stranger—and more tragic—than anyone expected.

"Maigret and the Yellow Dog" - Maigret unravels mystery where a dog shadows every crime.

28) 'The Yellow Dog' (Monday 26th April 2004 @ 2:15 p.m.)

Maigret, assigned for the past month to Rennes to reorganise the Flying Squad [Brigade Mobile], is called to Concarneau, where M. Mostaguen, Concarneau's biggest wine dealer, was shot after leaving the Admiral Café. Circumstances make it appear that it was only chance that made him the victim. When Maigret arrives at the Admiral Hotel, and is drinking with the other members of Mostaguen's group, Ernest Michoux, a non-practicing doctor and real estate dealer, notices powder in the drinks which turns out to be strychnine. The next day, Jean Servières, another member, disappears, his blood-stained car found abandoned. Journalists descend on Concarneau, and a vagrant is arrested, a giant bear of a man, but he breaks free. Apparently it is his yellow dog which has been noticed around since the first shooting.

While his assistant Leroy uses "science" and "deductions" to trace the murderer, Maigret's instincts unerringly guide him to the real killer past a labyrinth of fascinating characters: a paranoid failed medical doctor turned real-estate shark; a passive, working class waitress whose heart secretly burns a torch of passion; an aristocratic politician who pressures Maigret to "make some arrests"; and a snarling stray dog that knows the murderer's real identity.

First published in 1931 as "Le Chien jaune". Translated in 1939 as "A Face for a Clue" by Geoffrey Sainsbury. It is also known as "The Yellow Dog" and dramatised for radio by David Cregan.

With Nicholas Le Provost [Chief Inspector Jules Maigret], Julian Barnes [Georges Simenon], Chris Moran [Inspector Leroy], Cherie Taylor Battiste [Emma], Ioan Meredith [Dr. Ernest Michoux], Philip Fox [M. Jean Servières], Michael Fenton Stevens [M. Yves Le Pommeret], Phillip Joseph [M. Mostaguen], Joe Dunlop [The Mayor], Steven Diggory [Leon], Francis Jeater [Mme Servières], Rachel Atkins [Landlady], and Damian Lynch [Customs Officer].

Music by Lucinda Mason Brown, performed by the Viper's Dream Quartet.
Produced and directed by Ned Chaillet
45 minutes

Georges Simenon, the prolific Belgian writer who created the iconic detective Jules Maigret. Simenon wrote 75 Maigret novels and 28 short stories, blending psychological depth with atmospheric settings and understated suspense. His work has been translated into more than 50 languages and adapted across radio, television, and film—making him one of the most widely read European authors of the 20th century.