On 11 April 2008, Tilman Spreckelsen, editor of the ›Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung‹, embarked on a self-experiment: A Maigret Marathon has taken place at www.faz.net every Friday ever since. Spreckelsen reads one Maigret novel every week and in a blog reports on every stage, enriching his post with exciting rubrics such as »The plot in one sentence«, information on the setting, a list of alcoholic beverages consumed, new insights into Maigret and Madame Maigret, and one favourite sentence.