![]() This was my introduction to Simenon’s non-Maigret books, and turned out to be a very good one to begin with. Instead, he uses his knowledge of the tides to retrieve the suitcase, which he finds to be full of English banknotes… But when he later sees the two men fighting over the suitcase and then one of them killing the other, during which the suitcase falls in the dock, he doesn’t do what he knows he should – inform the authorities. Maloin shrugs – smuggling is commonplace and he’d probably do it himself. One night, he’s watching the various arrivals and departures of cross-channel ferries as usual when he spots one man throwing a suitcase over the fence to another man, thus avoiding customs. Maloin is a railway signalman who works the night-shift in the signal box at Dieppe, overlooking the harbour. ![]() Lead us not into temptation… □ □ □ □ □ ![]()
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