Maigret and the Man on the Bench (Maigret Mystery Series)

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Summary: For Maigret Afficionados
Review: A man is found knifed in a Paris Alley. He is wearing "goose dung" brown shoes and not the black shoes he had on when he left home for work that morning. Thus begins "Maigret and the Man on the Bench".

During the long career of Georges Simenon, he published more than 200 novels and had more than 500 million copies of his books in print. When Georges Simenon is on, his Maigret stories are simply brilliant. When he is not at his best, the novels are merely good. This is a good novel that I would recommend for devotees of the Maigret mystery novels. I would not recommend the book for a first time Maigret reader. There are better novels with which to become aquainted with the venerable Jules Maigret.