By Georges Simenon
ISBN: 978-0-241-30389-4
First published 1960
155 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Cover photograph: Harry Gruyaert / Magnum Photos
Front cover design: Alceu Chiesorin Nunes
4/5 Stars
A trip into the labyrinthine world of the late 1950’s French aristocracy. Old people, no longer holding any real power, but still indulging in forced marriages, affairs of the heart, and hidden secrets.
But these aresecrets from a bygone-age! Falling into a love that could never be allowed, prior to the First World war.
but what secret could come back, fifty years later, to kill an old man because of it?
Read on …
P.S. Also, read this great review of Simenon as a writer here.
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