Maigret

I was intrigued in the story at reference 1 by a reference to a bar being busy because they were showing something called catch on the television. Presumably at a time when not that many people had television at home.

I first thought that catch was something to do with catching balls and Bing & Wikipedia did turn up something called dodgeball, a version of which is popular in northern Spain. See references 2 and 3.

But this did not seem to be quite the thing, and eventually Cortana ran down the fact that catch is the name of a sort of wrestling, popular in France and lots of other places. Popular, as I now recall, among students in halls of residence in the later 1960's - not that that helped recall earlier. Something to watch between the footer and the pubs opening. See reference 4.

That aside, the problem shortly will be that I feel sure that there is a volume XXV, but ebay France and ebay UK both deny knowledge. Am I going to have to go back to the beginning? Or try one of the volumes of short stories that I skipped?

PS: it did not take many minutes to run down the reference to catch in reference 1, despite what Chater has to say about speed reading being a myth in reference 5. But, contrariwise, I have yet to run down exactly where he says it.

PPS: some time later: get there in the end. Bottom of page 45 of the first hard back edition of 2018. To be fair to Chater, he does distinguish skimming from reading. Perhaps one can skim a text, looking for keywords, much faster than one can read it properly.

Reference 1: Maigret et l'Affaire Nahour - Simenon - 1966. Volume XXIV of the collected works.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodgeball.

Reference 3: http://www.worlddodgeballfederation.com/.

Reference 4: http://catch-apc.com/.

Reference 5: The Mind Is Flat: The Illusion of Mental Depth and the Improvised Mind - Nick Chater – 2018. See reference 6.

Reference 6: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-myth-of-unconscious.html.