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
Central Military Band of the Latvian National Armed Forces with years of experience in various Soviet military bands reestablished the original Latvian band as part of the Staff Battalion and was based on the organizational structure of the Headquarters Staff Band of the Baltic Military District which operated during the long Soviet occupation. Dainis Vuskans, a Soviet musician of Latvian ethnicity, who at the time served as the conductor of the Soviet Army's 11th Band in Kaliningrad, was immediately invited to become the band's first conductor. On January 3, 1992, the band made its first performance at the Latvian War Museum. Since then, the band has grown into a