was ridiculous that foot without the shoe, there on the sidewalk, side by side with the black kid's shoe. He was naked, underwear. It did not seem to belong to a dead man. Maigret go away 'and went' to pick up the second shoe, remained at six or seven feet from the body. After I did not say 'nothing. He waited for smoking. Other onlookers approached the group, commenting in a low voice. Then the van stopped 'near the sidewalk and two men lifted the corpse. Below, the soil was clean, no traces of blood. "She finished, Lequeux, waiting for his report." It was then that Maigret took possession of the dead. Sali 'next to the driver in the truck and cried' all in the lurch. Behaved 'so' all night, and throughout the morning: one would have said that the body belonged to him, that the dead man was her dead.
(George Simenon, Adelphi )
My opinion: another fine novel by Simenon's Maigret starring with his usual method of idagine: immedisimazione nell'idagine the same.
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