Genre: Book
Grade: A
Notable People: Georges Simenon
Title: ” Maigret”
Review: Talk about retro……ran out of books to read, too cold and snowy to got to the library for a few days…so picked up an old Maigret randomly, which kept me busy for two days……. If you don’t know Maigret…. shame on you…. Simenon wrote this series about the thoughtful and empathetic Lord of Paris detectives from the 1920s through the 1970s…. fifty years Maigret. Originally serialized in the daily Paris newspapers, the series became a genre of its own………extraordinarily psychological for its time……with wit and precision rarely found in any genre…. I happened to pick up “Maigret Has Doubts “(1959) from the home library…. …but it honestly does not matter- …. read any one of the hundreds of these books…and you’ll be well satiated…. Simenon was one of the nine wonders of the world