Part of the Penguin 60s series; published on the occasion of Penguin Books 60th anniversary. This short book includes two excellent short stories taken from 'Maigret's Christmas'. In the first 'Death of a Nobody' the French detective is haunted by the seemingly random murder of an ordinary family man. While in 'The Man in the Street' a clever trap leads Maigret and his suspect on an exhausting chess game around Paris.
I imagine these are among Simenon best short stories as they have been singled out, but even so they are exceptional. ( )