The Strangers in the House
Author: Simenon, Georges
ISBN: 9780241487099
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 14mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A new translation of a twisting detective novel from the celebrated author of the Maigret series
Hector Loursat, a lawyer in the small town of Moulins, has lived as a drunken recluse since his wife left him eighteen years previously. Unmoored from society and estranged from his daughter, he shuts himself away, numbed by endless bottles of burgundy. But when a dead man is found in his house one night, the resulting police investigation unearths secrets that shake the town - and Loursat's isolation - to the core. No longer able to ignore the world, he emerges to take on the murder case himself and confront the lives of Moulins' by-ways and back streets.
In the progressive break-down of Loursat's self-imposed isolation, Simenon brilliantly depicts the psychology of loneliness and a man's tortured re-engagement with humanity and its darkest acts.
ISBN: 9780241487099
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 14mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A new translation of a twisting detective novel from the celebrated author of the Maigret series
Hector Loursat, a lawyer in the small town of Moulins, has lived as a drunken recluse since his wife left him eighteen years previously. Unmoored from society and estranged from his daughter, he shuts himself away, numbed by endless bottles of burgundy. But when a dead man is found in his house one night, the resulting police investigation unearths secrets that shake the town - and Loursat's isolation - to the core. No longer able to ignore the world, he emerges to take on the murder case himself and confront the lives of Moulins' by-ways and back streets.
In the progressive break-down of Loursat's self-imposed isolation, Simenon brilliantly depicts the psychology of loneliness and a man's tortured re-engagement with humanity and its darkest acts.
