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...born, 42-year-old Georges Simenon (real name: Georges Sim) is one of the world's most prolific authors. Before turning to "serious" fiction (of which The Shadow Falls is supposedly an example) he wrote 300-odd pulp novels and thrillers, including the stories which made his Inspector Maigret one of fiction's most famed detectives. But last spring the gumshoe was on the other foot. Sleuthhound Simenon was snapped up by Paris police and indicted. The charge: "intelligence with the enemy" during the German occupation...
This book is called by its publishers the first "mature" novel by France's most famed detective-story writer, the creator of Inspector Maigret. Hot melodrama would be a better term for it. A young, naive Frenchman, Joseph Timar, goes out to work at the Equatorial African trading post of Libreville. At the town's only hotel, he stares at the grinning masks on the walls, cranks up a phonograph with a big, old-fashioned horn, drinks his first "peg" of whiskey and feels like a young rakehell. The feeling increases when Proprietress Adèle comes...
...MAIGRET SITS IT OUT-Georges Simenon-Harcourt, Brace ($2). The phlegmatic French detective moves through two stories of murder among pre-war Paris' underworld and petite bourgeoisie. Excellent as quivering slices of lowlife, and as studies in psychology. The detecting is typical Maigret...
...MAIGRET KEEPS A RENDEZVOUS-Georges Simenon-Harcourt ($2). Two first-class exploits of phlegmatic French Detective Maigret: One is the case of a Breton sea captain, slain after a frenzied voyage, which Maigret closes on an extra-legal note; the other a rural tragedy, involving the death of an elderly countess by induced shock. Translation not so smooth as earlier Simenon but both tales have brilliant workmanship...
...MAIGRET TO THE RESCUE - Georges Simenon - Harcourt, Brace ($2). Another splendid brace of Inspector Maigret stories translated from the French. Frequent dollops of Pernod improve everyone's perceptions...