The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien
Author: Simenon, Georges
ISBN: 9780141393452
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 11 Feb 2014
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback / softback
A new translation of this haunting tale about the lengths to which people will go to escape from guilt, part of the Maigret series
A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And hanging was the leitmotif of at least twenty other etchings and pen or pencil sketches.
On the edge of a forest: a man hanging from every branch.
A church steeple: beneath the rooster atop the weather vane, a human body dangled from each arm of the cross . . . below another sketch were written four lines from Villon's Ballade des Pendus.
On a trip to Brussels, Maigret unwittingly causes a man's suicide, but his own remorse is overshadowed by the discovery of the sordid events that drove the desperate man to shoot himself.
ISBN: 9780141393452
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 11 Feb 2014
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback / softback
A new translation of this haunting tale about the lengths to which people will go to escape from guilt, part of the Maigret series
A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And hanging was the leitmotif of at least twenty other etchings and pen or pencil sketches.
On the edge of a forest: a man hanging from every branch.
A church steeple: beneath the rooster atop the weather vane, a human body dangled from each arm of the cross . . . below another sketch were written four lines from Villon's Ballade des Pendus.
On a trip to Brussels, Maigret unwittingly causes a man's suicide, but his own remorse is overshadowed by the discovery of the sordid events that drove the desperate man to shoot himself.
