A lovely paeon to Paris through the writings of Georges Simenon’s and the pen and ink sketches of Frederick Franck. The latter, having done hundreds of drawings of the Paris he yearned for during his WWII exile from Europe, has paired them with passages from 45 of Simenon’s novels, both Maigret’s as well as the ‘romandeers.’ As he states in the introduction, “[GS] is the same person who has created that seething mass of all too human incarnations to whom nothing human can possibly be alien.” Maigret is the cop who without any illusions about men, nevertheless continues to have faith in man.” Eager to return to Maigret!