Maigret at the Crossroads

La nuit du carrefour (English title: Maigret at the Crossroads) is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. Published in 1931, it is one of the earliest novels to feature Inspector Maigret in the role of the chief police investigator, a character that has since become one of the best-known detectives in fiction.

The plot of the novel is driven by the murder of Isaac Goldberg, a Jewish diamond merchant, in a place outside Paris known as the Three Widows' Crossroads. The cast of characters includes:

• Carl Andersen & Else Andersen, an aristocratic Danish duo who live in a secluded house at the crossroads
• Monsieur Michonnet, an insurance agent in whose car the body of Goldberg was found
• Monsieur Oscar, the owner of the service station at the crossroads

Originally written in French, the novel was translated into English by Robert Baldick and published by Penguin in 1963.