L' homme qui regardait passer les trains

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Georges Simenon: L' homme qui regardait passer les trains (French language, 1953, Gallimard)

246 pages

French language

Published Sept. 24, 1953 by Gallimard.

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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.

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