TWO FOR TUESDAY - MARCEL GUILLAUME AS SEEN ON TV

Marcel Guillaume is a French police inspector hired by Monsieur Poirier to find his missing daughter Monique in Season 4. 

From Wikipedia:
The character of Maigret was invented, but after the first few novels was influenced by Chief Inspector Marcel Guillaume, said to be the greatest French detective of his day, who became a long-time friend of Simenon.

From The Murdoch Mysteries Wiki:
Marcel Guillaume was a real life police chief in Paris, France. He was renowned as an ace investigator solving many high profile cases during his time with the police, and was the inspiration for Georges Simenon's main character, Inspector Maigret. Considerably more famous in France, Guillaume led investigations into Parisian cases including the Bonnet gang, the murderer Landru, Violette Nozière, the Mestorino murder, and the assassination of French president Paul Dormer.  

We have another example similar to those of Shakespeare, Twain, Conan Doyle, and Christie - George Simenon may have created a fictional character named Jules Maigret in the Real World, but in Toobworld he was writing about an actual person.  So Simenon was more like a Boswell, a Dr. Watson, chronicling a biography from the cases investigated by the televersion of Maigret.

However, should it ever come up, Simenon flavored his stories about Maigret by giving him attributes that could be ascribed to Marcel Guillaume.  So Guillaume and Maigret were both real in Toobworld.

BCnU!