Michael Nethercott

I’ve always found Police Inspector Jules Maigret to be a comfortable, comforting specimen of sleuth—comfortable in his own skin, comforting in his routines. Spawned in 1931 by Belgium-born author Georges Simenon, the much-chronicled Maigret plied his trade in the streets of Paris for a hundred and three adventures (75 novels and 23 short stories, with…