Character Comparisons
D'Onofrio has called Goren "a modern-day Sherlock Holmes," and creator René Balcer further cites Georges Simenon's Commissaire Maigret as influencing the development of the character. Balcer also says the character owes a lot to Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe.
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