Simenon
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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As is always the case with Simenon, psychology trumps everything else, and this movie certainly goes deep and dark.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026
Yet as I devoured title after title by the Cains and Dorothy B. Hughes and Jim Thompson, Georges Simenon and Leigh Brackett, I began to suspect that Greene had been wrong.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023
His mother went on to play Madame Maigret in a BBC adaptation of the George Simenon novels, and his father made promotional films.
From BBC • Dec. 23, 2021
He had been reading Simenon — though not the Inspector Maigret crime novels — and was inspired by him to see what could be accomplished with a narrow vocabulary and a spare, straightforward style.
From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2020
For John von Bergen Elegy For Simenon Fresh air, faintly salty, smell of bark and fallen apples, small pond, lily pads, dark water.
From The Book with the Yellow Cover by Wetterau, John Moncure
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