Simenon

1 The publishers have their work cut out for them: the scarily prolific Simenon wrote more than 400 books, 75 of them about Maigret.

2 Simenon was by then at the height of his powers as a novelist, and the portrayal of the detective is now more nuanced.

3 I could have included work by Chandler or Simenon, but instead I’ve chosen one that revolves around wine.

4 Other French writers: Georges Simenon, author of the classic Inspector Maigret series.

5 The astringent minimalism of French directors over the past 60 years may have been perfected by Robert Bresson, but it was inspired by the netherworld in which Simenon characters dwell.

6 At the beginning of Maigret and Monsieur Charles, the 75th novel in Georges Simenon’s detective series, the celebrated inspector lines up his pipes on his desk.

7 Estimate, a four-year-old filly trained by Michael Stoute, held off a challenge by Simenon in the final furlong to win by a neck and initiate a rapturous reception for the Queen in the winner's enclosure.

8 And yes, reader, she went on to marry her beloved, bear a child and translate some of the detective novels of Georges Simenon.

9 Usually used in series design, the effects can be seen in a sequence of Georges Simenon books designed by Keenan.

10 Georges Simenon routinely used to write a police "procedural" in a week.

11 He also appeared as Inspector Maigret in an ITV adaptation of Georges Simenon's books which ran for two series.

12 It was “La Chambre Bleue,” or “The Blue Room,” a thriller by Georges Simenon that the actor-director has just adapted for his film in competition here in the Un Certain Regard section.

13 Two of his literary heroes, their books lining the work-room in Berlin where I talked to him last September, were Raymond Chandler and Georges Simenon.

14 Yet as I devoured title after title by the Cains and Dorothy B. Hughes and Jim Thompson, Georges Simenon and Leigh Brackett, I began to suspect that Greene had been wrong.

15 She was an early member of the Mystery Writers of America, which included Ellery Queen and Georges Simenon, and served as president in 1956.

16 It's the same in the books of Simenon where Maigret is a man who loves good food.

17 As productive as he was profligate, Simenon wrote at least 200 novels, about 80 of them featuring the gruff, wily Inspector Jules Maigret, and a similar number of short stories.

18 She also analyzes “Frankenstein” and Mary Shelley’s other proto-science-fiction­ novel, “The Last Man,” before explaining why Heathcliff is her favorite villain and Georges Simenon one of her favorite authors.

19 And so a middle-class set-piece takes on the color of a tale by Georges Simenon.

20 What can be said is that “The Red Barn” is nowhere less engaging than at an elaborately staged finish that is true to Simenon’s novel but that feels unearned in this reckoning of it.

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