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Policeman in Maigret book blows the whistle . . .

It's what policemen did when a suspect was getting away in 1950s Paris. So it was in Simenon's Maigret and the Man on the Bench. He wanted to alert other cops in the neighborhood. Whistles all had same sound, I'm sure (never saw one), so blowing it was just to get them looking for the running man or woman.  Didn't work this time in this 1953 book, two-thirds through it, as plot thickened. (Ugh. It's what plots do, I know.) Man got away. Now excuse me, I have to get back at it. Not work, you fool. The book.
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