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.
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ISBN | 9780241487099 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Literary, Classic crime, Fiction in translation, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | Penguin Books |
Jahr | 20211104 |
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