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A review by srash
The Night at the Crossroads by Georges Simenon
3.0
Revisiting Maigret after loving the stories as a teenager but being too far removed from reading them to remember what I had read. :)
I don't think I had read this one before, though it was my favorite episode of the Rowan Atkinson adaptation series. The book version is quite different, but that made reading this fun because I couldn't make educated guesses based on what I'd watched.
Captures what I like well about the series (the Continental tone--reminds me of Nordic Noir but less grim, the wry humor, the stellar opening scenes, refreshing lack of whimsy on the part of the detectives, an at times lyrical atmosphere that you don't often see in the genre while still being very pulpy and noirish), but it's still a fairly early work. I don't know that it's Simenon at his best, though it was fun.
This is, of course, an assumption on my part because, again, I can't remember for the life of me what I read years ago.
Still, I've resolved to read a Maigret every (other) day for the holidays, so more French murder awaits. . . .
I don't think I had read this one before, though it was my favorite episode of the Rowan Atkinson adaptation series. The book version is quite different, but that made reading this fun because I couldn't make educated guesses based on what I'd watched.
Captures what I like well about the series (the Continental tone--reminds me of Nordic Noir but less grim, the wry humor, the stellar opening scenes, refreshing lack of whimsy on the part of the detectives, an at times lyrical atmosphere that you don't often see in the genre while still being very pulpy and noirish), but it's still a fairly early work. I don't know that it's Simenon at his best, though it was fun.
This is, of course, an assumption on my part because, again, I can't remember for the life of me what I read years ago.
Still, I've resolved to read a Maigret every (other) day for the holidays, so more French murder awaits. . . .