Maigret discovers Thouret lost his job three years earlier but continued to leave for "work" every morning to keep up appearances for his ambitious wife.
Reviewers from Crime Review highlight the "chilly, damp streets of Paris" and Simenon’s ability to evoke the post-war era.
Many critics, including those at Amazon , note that this is a quintessential Simenon theme—solving a murder by reconstructing the victim's hidden world.
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