The first two are out already, including “Pietr the Latvian,” originally published in 1930, the earliest book to feature the iconic Paris police inspector.
Simenon was very prolific; in addition to his Maigret novels, he also produced 117 romans durs, or hard novels, which Luc Sante describes in a 2007 Bookforum essay
as “punishing studies of human beings driven by circumstance and
personality to the ends of their tethers” -- a total of 400-plus books
in all.
HT Bill Gottfried
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Hurrah! My old copies are falling apart. It took me a while to "get him". Then I saw Bruno Cremer portray Maigret and the light bulb went on...
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