Publication History
La Danseuse du Gai-Moulin was first published by Fayard in November 1931. Simenon, known to be a fast writer, is said to have penned the entire book in 25 hours.
The first English edition (published simultaneously in the UK and the United States) was published by George Routledge and Sons in 1940 in a two book volume entitled Maigret Abroad (along with A Crime in Holland) with the title At the Gai-Moulin. It was reissued in 1991 by Harcourt with its current English title. The book was translated from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury.
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