L' homme qui regardait passer les trains

By Georges Simenon

Subjects: Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Fiction, general, Maigret, jules (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Crime thrillers, Identity (Pyschology), Murder, Fiction, Paris (france), fiction, France, fiction, Detective and mystery stories

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.