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...case soon began to look like one calling for the quirky talents of Simenon's Inspector Maigret. A month after the theft, Marcel Dassault, 84, unaccountably withdrew his formal complaint against De Vathaire. Dassault, who is famous for having developed his company's Mirage fighter planes, later appeared on French television with a somewhat unconvincing explanation of his action. He declared that "since there was no chance of recovering the money, and to please his parents, I dropped charges against my employee of 24 years' standing." Would he go so far as to rehire De Vathaire...
GEORGES SIMENON is the most prolific writer living, the famed mystery story-teller of over 400 novels and creator of the diffident Commissaire Maigret of the Quai des Orfevres Criminal Brigade. His first novel, which appeared in 1923, was written in one week to meet a publisher's deadline, and in succeeding years he has never deviated from that schedule, nor from the plot format he first laid down. This methodical grinding out of thrillers has made him the best-selling French author ever, a kind of freak of technique in the publishing world, and has earned him millions...
...notion that human relationships are indeed hard to understand, that they take time to decipher, are full of profound feelings, etc. Unfortunately, this new kind of puzzle isn't nearly as interesting as a good murder mystery, nor is Simenon, the musing son, nearly as captivating as Commissaire Maigret, the plodding detective...
...certain prescribed period of time (in the case of Letters to My Mother, one day), finishes. In that time a simple story-line emerges, sustained by the most elementary event-to-event, casual thinking. Ironically this dearth of complexity is the peculiar strength of his roman policier: the name Maigret itself connotes a kind of thinness, a stylistic baldness. Unlike the elegant Sherlock Holmes, Commissaire Maigret is a bourgeois hero, a symbol of the unpretentious common man; he uses no complicated forensics, no tricks of reason, his habits are ordinary--his only asset is a persistent, though mediocre intellect. Judging...
Poirot: deceased. Maigret: retired. Martin Beck, Commander Gideon, Inspector West: gone, all gone with the recent deaths of their creators. Of the old breed, only Nero Wolfe is still doing business at the same old stand, his orchidaceous town house in Manhattan, backed and fronted as always by the ineffable Archie Goodwin. Like his corpulent hero, Author Rex Stout, 89, continues to confound the actuarial tables-and his followers. In this latest outing, Stout ups the stakes of the game he plays with readers. Three-quarters of the way through, Narrator Archie realizes the identity of the criminal and concedes...