A review by furfff
Death of a Nobody by Georges Simenon

3.0

A bit of a disappointment to have gotten caught up in a completist frenzy and procured this without doing my due diligence to realize that both stores here are also in the Maigret Christmas story collection. That said, it’s a fun quick read if you enjoy tales of the inspector. Both stories focus on the single minded tenacity of the character, One in which he endeavors to get to the bottom of a man whose mildly depressingly mundane life would not seem to point to anyone wanting to murder him, the other a story about Maigret being convinced he has the right man and spending several days hunting him down on the street until he caves and returns to his home (why the suspect doesn’t choose to out run maigret at any point someone eluded me). The first and longer of the two stories was the better in my opinion, but again, consider buying the larger collection that also contains these instead.