While he shaved, Maigret felt guilty. Maybe 'cause he had a personal grudge against Fumal? Suddenly he asked 'if he had completed his duty to the end. The wholesale butcher had appeared to ask for protection. Sure, he had behaved aggressively, had been recommended by the Minister and the Commissioner had directed thinly veiled threats. This
'even though he was obliged to do his job. He had really done everything possible? He had gone in person boulevrad de Courcelles, but had not bothered to check every door, every exit, thinking of postponing the task the next day, so 'as to question the servants one by one ...
would have acted differently if the man he had not been unpleasant, if he had not had an old score to settle with him if it were any other important business man in Paris?
(George Simenon, Adelphi )
My opinion: the encounter with a childhood friend is not too popular, a demand expressed protection against him by the Minister of the Interior, little appreciated by Maigret for mode 'a bit' too imperative with which she and 'took place, means that the commissioner does not take too much enthusiasm with the whole thing. The consequences are fatal and unfortunately Maigret must 'change his mind on his opinion a bit' too hasty. Beautiful, like all novels of Simenon.
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