The Wall Street Journal - 19/12/2020 - Tom Nolan - Georges Simenon wrote his sleek, atmospheric stories starring Parisian police inspector Jules Maigret from 1931 to 1972. The six Maigrets included in two handsome fine-press box sets from the Folio Society, illustrated with elegant woodcuts by Harry Brockway, are set across multiple decades, but little changes in Maigret’s world of faded aristocrats and striving arrivistes, the chic and the shabby, the lovelorn and the bitter. The French milieu is timeless; the psychological deduction ever astute. “Maigret Set One” (472 pages, $120) and “Maigret Set Two” (451 pages, $120)...>>>
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