Some types of research you simply cannot quantify, such as a chance text message to a friend in Brussels about my search for novels set in Nantes. The results: he sent me a link to the WordPress site of the Novelists of Nantes or in French, Les Romanciers Nantais . From over 120 books by about 30 contemporary authors from in and around Nantes my first selection is this set of three. Only deciding by the publicity on their web-site, my first selection are novels that use named streets or places that can be found in Nantes today, or at least say they are set in contemporary Nantes. The Novelists of Nantes Via their WordPress Comments box I am attempting to make contact with the novelists to see if any would like to tell me about the places they use in their narratives. In my doctoral research I identify key moments in the detective novel, The Yellow Dog , when Maigret, the character, is in the exact same spot that Simenon, the author, would have known (Mansfield 2015, 189-190):
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