Item #75582 The Patience of Maigret / A Battle of Nerves. Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC) reader's report, favourably assessing the novel's potential for film adaptation, together with a vintage hardback book. Georges SIMENON, R. HALL, report author.
The Patience of Maigret / A Battle of Nerves. Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC) reader's report, favourably assessing the novel's potential for film adaptation, together with a vintage hardback book.
The Patience of Maigret / A Battle of Nerves. Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC) reader's report, favourably assessing the novel's potential for film adaptation, together with a vintage hardback book.
The Patience of Maigret / A Battle of Nerves. Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC) reader's report, favourably assessing the novel's potential for film adaptation, together with a vintage hardback book.
The Patience of Maigret / A Battle of Nerves. Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC) reader's report, favourably assessing the novel's potential for film adaptation, together with a vintage hardback book.

The Patience of Maigret / A Battle of Nerves. Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC) reader's report, favourably assessing the novel's potential for film adaptation, together with a vintage hardback book.

N.p. [London: Elstree Studios/ABPC], Routledge, 1943, 1939. [Literary and cinematic critique] Elstree Studios' report of the 'Inspector Maigret' murder-mystery, considering the novel as suitable for filming. 3pp., typed report on rectos only. Perforations down left edge from office binding. Very well preserved. Book is near fine in publisher's cloth (1942 printing). Typed report for Elstree's Reading Department, dated October 1943. Its verdict on the novel was encouraging, stating: 'Thrilling and fast-moving story which holds the interest throughout... many original and intriguing incidents which could be developed cinematically... if due care were given to adaptation, casting and direction, a film of the very highest class would result'. A Battle of Nerves was one of the earliest of Simenon's "Maigret" novels, translated in 1939. It has since been dramatised numerous times. A scarce film industry critique on a major novel from one of Britain's best-known and well-loved film studios. Item #75582

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