J.B. Spins

Women, children, and the well-to-do sit up front.  Prostitutes, ruffians, and the socially marginalized hunker down in the cattle cars br...

Betty is blue. How did she get so down-and-out?  That would be a condition many of Georges Simenon’s characters found themselves in. Duri...

After the war, Georges Simenon whiled away some pleasant days in Nogales, Arizona. Presumably, he appreciated the charms of bordertown li...

Those Frenchies are always trying to corrupt their guileless provincial European neighbors.  Georges Simenon certainly would have known. ...

The nebbish sorts often have a hard time of it in Simenon’s work.  The Belgian crime writer took rather perverse delight in up-ending the...

Georges Simenon led a colorful life.  There might have been a few women and some fast living.  After the war, he also faced allegations o...

Georges Simenon remains one of the best known Belgian writers, but his signature detective, French Police Commissaire Jules Maigret has b...