INSPECTOR MAIGRET #1

Georges Simenon, Pietr the Latvian (Inspector Maigret), translated from the French by David Bellos (New York: Penguin Books, 2013) ("It would be an exaggeration to say that in most criminal inquires cordial relations arise between the police and the person they are trying to corner into a confession. All the same, they almost always become close to some degree (unless the suspect is just a glowering brute). That must be because for weeks and sometimes months on end the police and the suspect do nothing but think about each other." Id. at 144.).