L'Homme Qui Regardait Passer les Trains - The Library of the Uncommons

No cover — Georges Simenon: L'Homme Qui Regardait Passer les Trains (Paperback, 1967, Gallimard)

Paperback, 256 pages

Published Oct. 1, 1967 by Gallimard.

ISBN:: 978-0-7859-3963-4

(1 review)

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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Brendan reviewed The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By by Georges Simenon

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4 stars

Really brief good hard case novel. Totally unlikable protagonist who is a sociopath. Delving into his psyche. Reminds me a lot of Camus, especially the Fall.