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Title: Strangers in the House, The
Author: LINGARD JOAN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/02/2022
Imprint: PENGUIN CLASSIC
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
A new translation of a twisting detective novel from the celebrated author of the Maigret series
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.
ISBN: 9780241487099
Pages: 224