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- Unlike most fictional detectives, Maigret does not use the process of reasoning while engaged in an investigation, but instead relies on his intuition and unique facilities of perception to study all those involved and eventually identify the killer.
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Maigret began his life in the Judiciare patrolling the mean back streets of the capital-rubbing shoulders with petty criminals, gangsters, and prostitutes. Simenon had haunted the same places to collect raw material on which to base his stories.
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Sep 19, 2024 · Key to the Maigret investigative method is his walking a yard or two in the shoes of not just the victim to learn the circumstances of the crime, but the perpetrator too, ostensibly to understand the killer’s motivations.
Sep 12, 2022 · The Mysterious Case of Inspector Maigret. Georges Simenon was a high-living libertine; his greatest creation was a man of moral restraint. Yet the writer’s excesses are a clue to his detective ...
Jan 10, 2020 · In the late novel Maigret and the Killer, men playing cards in a bar don’t bother to investigate the noise of a murder outside. That said, the Maigrets are still crime fiction, where tension is central.
Mar 16, 2016 · While work was carried out in the Maigrets’ building, Simenon moved the couple to his own real address on Place des Vosges, but the no. 61 of the murder scene in L’Ombre chinoise (The Shadow Puppet) doesn’t exist: Place des Vosges has 36 houses, nine on each side.
Jan 25, 2021 · Sucking on his pipe, Maigret observes from a distance, inhaling the soul of people and places. Then he slowly closes in. He does not use forensic science and is more intuitive than procedural —...
Jan 17, 2019 · Maigret au Picratt’s: When a striptease artist is murdered, Inspector Maigret investigates. Best for? A fascinating rollercoaster ride through the demi-monde of Parisian night clubs in the 1950s.
