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
Latvian phonology rarely, and hence the corresponding letter was removed from the alphabet. Latvian has six vowels, with length as distinctive feature: , and the diphthongs involving it other than , are confined to loanwords. The vowel length ratio is about 1:2.5. Vowel length is phonemic and plays an important role in the language. For example, means 'made of wood', means 'on the tree'; means 'a drop', and means 'a duck'. Latvian also has 10 diphthongs (), although some diphthongs are mostly limited to proper names and interjections. Standard Latvian and, with a few minor exceptions, all of the Latvian dialects, have