Serge
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Inspector Torrence is alive in this novel, which would appear to situate its action before 1929, the year of writing of Pietr-le-Letton, in which the unfortunate policeman is killed in the same hotel Majestic. Is this sufficient to establish the time of the action? Or was Simenon, well known for not aging Maigret, using poetic license and placing the action around 1939, the year of writing of the present novel?
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Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)
Simenon didn't bother much about chronology, in part because he ground out articles and novels of several kinds like a sausage machine. In a 1939 novel Maigret is retired and yet in this one, published 1942, he is hale, hearty, still working and younger.
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