Fumbling for the Towel
Christopher Prendergast: Maigret’s elevation to the Panthéon, 7 July 2005
“... the fast-moving, sex-drenched and gadget-packed fantasy of the new Cold Warrior. I suppose Simenon continued to be read on train journeys, but Maigret, in his appropriately quiet way, slipped more or less definitively from public view. Who would have predicted Maigret’s return – or rather that of his creator, ... ”