But I discovered him in my teens, built up a goodly supply of his books over the next few decades, and still find him readable in an unchallenging sort of way. Recently I tackledIn the Face of the Verdict(Dodd Mead, 1940), in which Dr. P is longer onstage and more active than i...
in which he introduced the imperturbable, pipe-smoking Parisian police inspectorJules Maigretto fiction. Simenon went on to write 83 more detective novels featuring Inspector Maigret, as well as 136 psychological novels. His total literary output consisted of about 425 books that were translated into...