A review by furfff
Maigret's Mistake by Georges Simenon

4.0

Like this one a lot for some new unexplored territory (at least in terms of the ones I've read thus far, although I am admittedly reading them out of order.) Interesting to see in a book this old the number of things that remain true about (or at least the enduring perception about) physicians, and the kind of over-reverence and over-permissiveness with which we treat them. The physician suspect was a little cartoonishly over the top in his cold and emotional intelligence, but it did provide an interest in counterpoint for the various females that surrounded him. I can’t say I’m entirely certain what the mistake is that the title refers to, but the physician character was also an interesting negative image through which Simenon further helps the reader to understand maigret.