Word: simenon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rale of wilfully bungling the Stavisky investigation and then hiring five of the fanciest detectives to track down the murderers of Alexandre Stavisky and of Judge Albert Prince. The Paris-Soir pack of bloodhounds included Detective Story Writers Georges Simenon and André Gaston Leroux, son of the creator of Arsène Lupin; onetime Chief Inspector Alfred C. Collins of Scotland Yard; famed ex-Chief Constable Frederick Wensley, Britain's greatest detective (TIME, July 8, 1929); and last but not least Sir Basil Thomson, onetime Director of Intelligence of the British Secret Service...
...STRANGE CASE OF PETER THE LETT -Georges Simenon-Covici, Friede ($2). Inspector Maigret, mystified by duplex identity, spurred by sorrow, exhibits super-human activity, and bags...