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Alert viewers may also recognize a rough-hewn Lino Ventura — already a fixture in policiers — as one of Maigret’s men.

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2017

The French have a long history of these kinds of detail-oriented policiers: a genre they pretty much invented.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2016

The film climaxes, as all policiers apparently must, with a car chase, but it is nowhere near as interesting as the successful off-casting of nice Hal Holbrook as a heavy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Enter Maigret�sometimes known as "the French Hercule Poirot"�the hero of at least 44 romans policiers by Georges Simenon and generally conceded to be one of the most believable bloodhounds in the literature.

From Time Magazine Archive