Maigret's Childhood Friend by Georges Simenon

Author:Georges Simenon
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241304242
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2019-07-03T16:00:00+00:00

5.

Boulevard des Batignolles, with its lines of trees, was gloomy and deserted but, at its end, by contrast, Place Clichy could be seen brilliantly lit.

Janvier emerged from the shadows, the glowing tip of his cigarette piercing the darkness.

‘They came on foot, arm in arm. The man is small, short legs, very lively. The girl is young and pretty.’

‘You can go home to bed, or your wife will be cross with me.’

From the badly lit corridor Maigret recognized the smell because, when he had first arrived in Paris, he had stayed in a similar hotel in Montparnasse, the Hôtel de la Reine Morte. What queen did it refer to? No one had been able to tell him. The managers were from the Auvergne and they were fiercely determined that no one should cook in the rooms.

It was a smell of warm sheets, of human lives crammed together. The fake marble plaque outside announced, as at the Reine Morte:

Rooms by the month,

the week and the day.

Every convenience.

Bathrooms.

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