Georges Simenon: Maigret and the Saturday Caller: Inspector Maigret #59 [2018] paperback ZCHRI and then there was Karl

and then there was Karl

and useless

and they fuse and revise multiple frames of reference

troubled man

But a vicious beating from a client leaves her feeling vulnerable and angry

Georges Simenon: Maigret and the Saturday Caller: Inspector Maigret #59 [2018] paperback ZCHRI and then there was Karl'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray Inspector Maigret is followed home one evening by a man who reveals his intention to kill his wife and her lover. Maigret intervenes and speaks to the man daily but when the calls suddenly stop Maigret finds a murder on his hands. 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us