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Originally Posted by issybird
I strongly prefer his romans durs (which would include The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By, of course) to the Maigret books. However, as you’d expect from someone whose output was so colossal, the quality is all over the place; for me, the books range from top-ten for the year to awful.
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Even some of my favorite vintage crime writers (Hunter, Marsh) had ups and downs, so that is to be expected.