Miscarriage of justice

Back at reference 1, I complained that Maigret never made a mistake, was never involved in a miscarriage of justice.

I can now report that it could happen, and may have happened in 'Une Confidence de Maigret'. A story of a brutal murder with plenty of salicious bits and bobs in the margins, quite enough to get both the press and the public going. With the result that the examining magistrate takes charge rather too early, Maigret can't do his job properly and, quite possibly, the wrong chap is sent to the guillotine.

However, Simenon does not go so far as to put any of the blame on Maigret. The whole point of the story being that while his conscience might be pricking a bit, he did what could be done, given the system in which he worked. Not his fault that the examining magistrate, the product of a comfortable middle class background from where you did not learn how most people ticked, could not wait until Maigret had got his confession, had got his 'fair cop, bang to rights', before he stuck his oar in.

Class envy on the part of Simenon, a rich man from a poor background who, perhaps, was never quite accepted by said comfortable middle classes as one of them, more than usually visible.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/maigret-samuse-fin.html.

Reference 2: Une Confidence de Maigret - Simenon - 1959. Volume XXI of the collected works. Not many to go.