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  1. Also, avoiding spoilers, the ending shows that #Maigret books are not Christie-type cosy crime puzzlers, where we meet several suspects and get to know them in detail to choose the killer

    #Simenon instead uses the police procedural to explore the (often poignant) world of the victim or those close to them, with little interest in the actual murderer.

    I feel like #SjöwallandWahlöö did this with #MartinBeck, but to a clearer political purpose. Simenon was a great writer but with less noble aims.