L' homme qui regardait passer les trains

by Georges Simenon

First published 1938 · 253 pages

About this book

An unusual crime thriller about a seemingly respectable man who commits a murder in his home town of Groningen in Holland and then goes on the run. Imagining himself to be a criminal genius he plays a cat-and-mouse game with the police via the newspapers as he travels across Europe, finally ending up in Paris, where he becomes infatuated with a prostitute.

  • Identity (Pyschology)
  • Murder
  • Fiction
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Crime thrillers
  • Paris (france), fiction
  • France, fiction
  • Fiction, general

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