The third in the series of new Simenon translations is a subtle and philosophical mystery about the dark places where "big ideas" can lead. These Maigret stories, though situated in 1930s' France, are both timeless and placeless: They achieve universality. And through them runs the figure of the detective chief inspector: "There was something implacable and inhuman about him that suggested a pachyderm plodding inexorably towards its goal."
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