Status Updates From Maigret et son mort

Narrator: At what point did Nine’s husband become Maigret’s dead man, as he came to be known to everyone in the Police Judiciaire?

This was another of his habits when he was not feeling well: to lose himself in a novel by Alexandre Dumas père. He owned a set of his complete works in an old, cheap edition with yellowing pages and romantic engravings. The mere smell of those volumes brought back memories when he had been briefly laid up.