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

Man Who Watched Trains Go By

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

Man Who Watched 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 Books, Limited
Language
English

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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
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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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PQ2637.I53

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Pagination
240
Weight
0.168

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OL40347589M
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manwhowatchedtra0000geor
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9780141025872

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