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Book Review of Maigret and the bum

Maigret and the bum
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Simenon's Maigret stories are always fun for his usually short but well-constructed police procedurals set in 1950s Paris. Maigret is the perfect French cop: hard and relentless on the outside but with a soft inner self that can empathize with some of crooks and murderers he must deal with.