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Maigret's Memoirs (Inspector Maigret, Bk 35)
Maigret's Memoirs - Inspector Maigret, Bk 35 Author:Georges Simenon, Jean Stewart (Translator) 'I have written this book partly as a tribute to Monsieur Simenon who, by his patient work, has done the polie a service. — I trust that my excursion into print will not be attributed to vanity. Still less to any ambitions of a literary nature. The fact is that a policeman is, so to speak, made by experiences; by the midnight raids on brothel... more »s, and backstreet hotels; by the hours of tramping over cold, wet trottoirs; by the days and nights watching and waiting in the draughty caverns of the Gare du Nord.
What successes I have achieved are rooted in these things, the things I did and learned in my early days. Unpleasant as they are to recall (and unsavoury to read), I have set them all down.'« less