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L' homme qui regardait passer les trains

Georges Simenon

1938 · EN

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.

Editions · 5

Paperback
1986 · Penguin
320 pp · EN
9780140079791
Paperback
2004 · Penguin Books Ltd
240 pp · EN
9780141187679
Paperback
2005 · New York Review Books
203 pp · EN
tr. Marc Romano
9781590171493
Paperback
2006 · Penguin Books, Limited
EN
9780141025872
Paperback
2016 · Penguin Books, Limited
EN
tr. Sian Reynolds
9780141983264

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