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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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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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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.
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.
Jan 10, 2020 · Read the opening pages of The Saint-Fiacre Affair, in which Maigret returns to his home town to investigate a prophesied murder that duly takes place. The description of an early morning in a...
Without weighing too heavily on this topic, which risks moving us away from our proper investigation, we should still be aware that because of their originality, one wonders if, at the time, the Maigret novels deserved the pejorative appellation of police stories.
Mar 24, 2023 · Maigret is crushed by the realization that ‘a simple theft of ivory objects can become more poignant, in certain circumstances, than all the bloody crimes dealt with by the Police Judiciaire.’ There is also Maigret’s morality concerning sex.
Sep 12, 2022 · The books are filled with procedural matters—confronted with a wave of rapes, Maigret sighs primarily because he does not have enough officers to placate the press without weakening the service...