Maigret, Commissaire
Maigret, Commissaire the pipe-smoking French detective in a series of novels by Georges Simenon (1903–89) beginning in 1931; Maigret relies on his understanding of the criminal's motives rather than scientific deduction to solve crimes and the novels show considerable insight into human psychology.
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BORN: 1920, Coedcanlas, Tenby, Wales
NATIONALITY: British, Welsh
GENRE: Fiction
MAJOR WORKS:
The Sport of Queens (1957)
For Kicks (1965… Dime Novels , The firm of Beadle & Company published the first dime novel, Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter, by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, in 1860. The fir… George Eliot , Eliot, George
BORN: 1819, Warwickshire, England
DIED: 1880, London, England
NATIONALITY: British
GENRE: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry
MAJOR WORKS:
Adam… Criminology , criminology, the study of crime, society's response to it, and its prevention, including examination of the environmental, hereditary, or psychologic…
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