The Strange Case of Peter the Lett Woodward as "Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett"; and in 2014 by David Bellos as "Pietr the Latvian". The story has been adapted for television three times: In English in 1963 (with Rupert Davies in the main role); in Dutch in 1967 (Jan Teulings); and in French in 1972 (Jean Richard). The Strange Case of Peter the Lett The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (1931) (), a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon, is the very first novel to feature Inspector Jules Maigret who would later feature in more than a hundred stories by Simenon and who has
Sleuth hound Sleuth hound The sleuth hound (from Old Norse "slóð" "track, trail" + hound) was a breed of dog. Broadly, it was a Scottish term for what in England was called the bloodhound, although it seems that there were slight differences between them. It was also referred to as a 'slough dog', (or 'slewe dogge'), and a 'slow hound', the first word probably representing a mispronuciation of 'slough' rather than a reference to the speed of the hound. The sleuth hound first appears in poems about the Scottish patriots Robert the Bruce and William Wallace. These poems depict their heroes tracked