La Nuit Du Carrefour

ISBN:9782253142485, ISBN 10: 2253142484
Written by: Georges Simenon
Softcover, 192pp.
When Maigret, with a sigh of weariness, pushed his chair away from the desk to which he was leaning, there was exactly seventeen hours of Carl Andersen's interrogation. We had seen in turn, by the windows without curtains, the crowd of midwives and employees take by storm, at noon time, the creameries of the place Saint-Michel, then the animation weaken, the rush of six hours to the subways and train stations, the strolling of the aperitif ... The Seine had been enveloped in steam.