Georges Simenon: 'Maigrets' and the 'romans durs'

by Lucille Frackman Becker

A biography of the creator of one of the best-known characters in detective fiction, Inspector Maigret, the pipe-smoking Parisian police detective

Genres: Nonfiction, Biography

185 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2006

Reviews

[Shmuel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting book for devotees of Simenon but, I suspect, not for anyone else. It is not really a biography as much as an academic analysis of themes in his fiction. The type size is so small as to make sustained reading difficult.