L' homme qui regardait passer les trains
First published: 1938
Description
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.
Subjects
Identity (Pyschology)
Murder
Fiction
Detective and mystery stories
Crime thrillers
Maigret, jules (fictitious character), fiction
Paris (france), fiction
Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
France, fiction
Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
Fiction, general
Fiction, mystery & detective, general
