Maigret and the Hotel Majestic (French: Les Caves du Majestic) is a 1942 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret.This novel was first published in English in 1977 by Hamish Hamilton (London) and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (New York), translated by Caroline Hillier, later also published under the title The Hotel Majestic. In 2015, this novel was reissued in English under the title The Cellars of the Majestic, newly translated by Howard Curtis (ISBN 9780241188446). Source: Wikipedia (en)