Georges Simenon (Magill’s Choice: 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
Principal Series
Inspector Maigret, 1930-1972.
Principal Series Character
Jules Maigret, Chief Inspector of the Police Judiciaire (the French equivalent of Scotland Yard). He is about forty-five in most of the stories, although there are a few which look forward to his retirement or backward to his first cases. He and his self-effacing, intuitively understanding wife have no children, their one daughter having died in infancy. His approach is to penetrate the particular world of each event, getting to know the causative factors and interrelationships among those...
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