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A review by siria
Maigret and the Millionaires by Georges Simenon, Jean Stewart
3.0
When an English multi-millionaire is found dead in the bathtub of his luxurious Parisian hotel suite, Inspector Maigret is tasked with finding out whodunnit. Well, not so much whodunnit since the cast of characters is small and the culprit is obvious from the get-go, but the whydunnit, and how to prove the whydunnit.
There's a certain amount of charm to Maigret and the Millionaires just from the glimpse it provides at what seems now like an impossibly vanished world—where you might carry the Pan-Am timetable with you just in case you decided to pop onto the next jet plane to Nice with a ticket bought via cheque at the airport—captured at a point where jet-setting celebrities were just starting to become a thing. I found the ending a bit abrupt and unconvincing, but overall entertaining enough.
There's a certain amount of charm to Maigret and the Millionaires just from the glimpse it provides at what seems now like an impossibly vanished world—where you might carry the Pan-Am timetable with you just in case you decided to pop onto the next jet plane to Nice with a ticket bought via cheque at the airport—captured at a point where jet-setting celebrities were just starting to become a thing. I found the ending a bit abrupt and unconvincing, but overall entertaining enough.