An edition of L' homme qui regardait passer les trains (1938)

The man who watched the trains go by

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An edition of L' homme qui regardait passer les trains (1938)

The man who watched the trains go by

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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.

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Penguin
Language
English
Pages
184

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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, Mentally ill

Places

Groningen, Holland, Belgium, Paris, France

Times

1930's

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Cover of: Man Who Watched Trains Go By
Man Who Watched Trains Go By
2006, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
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Cover of: The man who watched trains go by
The man who watched trains go by
2005, New York Review Books
in English
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Cover of: Der Mann, der den Zügen nachsah.
Der Mann, der den Zügen nachsah.
June 1, 2002, Diogenes
Hardcover in German
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Cover of: L'Homme qui regardait passer les trains
L'Homme qui regardait passer les trains
1983, Edito-Service, [Diffusion Guilde du disque]
in French
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Cover of: Der Mann, der den Zügen nachsah
Der Mann, der den Zügen nachsah
1981, Diogenes Verlag
Paperback in German
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Cover of: The man who watched the trains go by
The man who watched the trains go by
1964, Penguin
in English
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Edition Notes

This translation originally published,Routledge,1942.

Translation Of
L' homme qui regardait passer les trains
Translated From
French

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
843.91

Contributors

Translator
Stuart Gilbert

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Pagination
184p.
Number of pages
184

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OL18895866M

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