Simenon
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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As is always the case with Simenon, psychology trumps everything else, and this movie certainly goes deep and dark.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026
Explaining the case's grip on the public mind, writer Thibault de Montaigu said in Le Figaro newspaper it was like "a novel by Georges Simenon" – creator of the fictional detective Inspector Maigret.
From BBC • Sep. 22, 2025
Perhaps the finest example of this — and among my favorite critical essays — is Lucy Sante’s 2007 exegesis on Georges Simenon.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2022
Georges Simenon has the happy faculty of being able to pack large gobs of mystery and excitement into a small number of pages.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021
For John von Bergen Elegy For Simenon Fresh air, faintly salty, smell of bark and fallen apples, small pond, lily pads, dark water.
From The Book with the Yellow Cover by Wetterau, John Moncure
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