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Dirty Snow (New York Review Books Classics)

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Nineteen-year-old Frank Friedmaier lives in a country under occupation. Most people struggle to get by; Frank takes it easy in his mother's whorehouse, which caters to members of the occupying forces. But Frank is restless. He is a pimp, a thug, a petty thief, and, as Dirty Snow opens, he has just killed his first man. Through the unrelenting darkness and cold of an endless winter, Frank will pursue abjection until at last there is nowhere to go.

Hans Koning has described Dirty Snow as "one of the very few novels to come out of German-occupied France that gets it exactly right." In a study of the criminal mind that is comparable to Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me, Simenon maps a no man's land of the spirit in which human nature is driven to destruction—and redemption, perhaps, as well—by forces beyond its control.
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (New York Review Books Classics)

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Kees Popinga is a solid Dutch burgher whose idea of a night on the town is a game of chess at his club. Or so it has always appeared. But one night this model husband and devoted father discovers his boss is bankrupt and that his own carefully tended life is in ruins. Before, he had looked on impassively as the trains to the outside world swept by; now he catches the first train he can to Amsterdam. Not long after that, he commits murder.

Kees Popinga is tired of being Kees Popinga. He's going to turn over a new leaf—though there will be hell to pay.
The Bar on the Seine (Penguin Mysteries)

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One of the world’s most successful crime writers, Georges Simenon has thrilled mystery lovers around the world since 1931 with his matchless creation Inspector Maigret. In The Bar on the Seine, Maigret must visit a prisoner he arrested and bear the news that his reprieve has been refused and he will be executed at dawn. But when the condemned man tells Maigret a story, his investigations lead him to the Guinguette a Deux Sous, a bar by the River Seine, and into the seamy underside of bourgeois Parisian life.

Act of Passion (New York Review Books Classics)

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     For forty years Charles Alavoine has sleepwalked through his life. Growing up as a good boy in the grip of a domineering mother, he trains as a doctor, marries, opens a medical practice in a quiet country town, and settles into an existence of impeccable bourgeois conformity. And yet at unguarded moments this model family man is haunted by a sense of emptiness and futility.
     Then, one night, laden with Christmas presents, he meets Martine. It is time for the sleeper to awake.
Tropic Moon (New York Review Books Classics)

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Newly translated for this edition.

A young Frenchman, Joseph Timar, travels to Gabon carrying a letter of introduction from an influential uncle. He wants work experience; he wants to see the world. But in the oppressive heat and glare of the equator, Timar doesn't know what to do with himself, and no one seems inclined to help except Adèle, the hotel owner's wife, who takes him to bed one day and rebuffs him the next, leaving him sick with desire. But then, in the course of a single night, Adèle's husband dies and a black servant is shot, and Timar is sure that Adèle is involved. He'll cover for the crime if she'll do what he wants. The fix is in. But Timar can't even begin to imagine how deep.

In Tropic Moon, Simenon, the master of the psychological novel, offers an incomparable picture of degeneracy and corruption in a colonial outpost.
Pedigree (New York Review Books Classics)

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Pedigree is Georges Simenon’s longest, most unlikely, and most adventurous novel, the book that is increasingly seen to lie at the heart of his outsize achievement as a chronicler of modern self and society. In the early 1940s, Simenon began work on a memoir of his Belgian childhood. He showed the initial pages to André Gide, who urged him to turn them into a novel. The result was, Simenon later quipped, a book in which everything is true but nothing is accurate. Spanning the years from the beginning of the century, with its political instability and terrorist threats, to the end of the First World War in 1918, Pedigree is an epic of everyday existence in all its messy unfinished intensity and density, a story about the coming-of-age of a precocious and curious
boy and the coming to be of the modern world.

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Get Lost In China Miéville's Weirdest Cityscape Yet - io9
io9, CA - May 22, 7066
Get Lost In China Miéville's Weirdest Cityscape YetMore reserved and a bit less corrupt than some of his policzai colleagues, he's a world-weary cop cut from the same cloth as Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander or perhaps Georges Simenon's Commissaire Maigret. We follow the investigation through Borlú's

TV ad ban creates no windfall for webs - Variety
Variety, CA - May 22, 2009
TV ad ban creates no windfall for websBy IAN MUNDELL It's a Gallic mystery that would confound author Georges Simenon's much-loved Parisian cop, Inspector Maigret. When the French government banned primetime advertising on public service webs in January, the major private broadcasters were

Mystery Meals: Sleuthing out the meals in detective stories - HeraldNet
HeraldNet, WA - May 13, 2009
Mystery Meals: Sleuthing out the meals in detective storiesDetectives such as Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe or Georges Simenon's Inspector Maigret are served delectable meals, usually with not much more elaboration than you might get on a restaurant menu, although Stout's "Too Many Cooks" did include recipes.

Repertory: The City of Lost Children, Earthlings and More - PW-Philadelphia Weekly
PW-Philadelphia Weekly, PA - May 13, 2009
Repertory: The City of Lost Children, Earthlings and MoreHire is based on the 1947 film Panique, which is based on Georges Simenon's novel about murder and unrequited love. Sandwiched between those two French doozies, Andrew offers this early Poe biopic that focuses on the women in his life.

The divine lightness of being Ludivine Sagnier - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk, UK - May 11, 2009
The divine lightness of being Ludivine Sagnier - guardian.co.uk guardian.co.ukThe divine lightness of being Ludivine SagnierThe film wasn't seen much in the UK, and neither was La Californie, an adaptation of a Georges Simenon mystery. Instead, we got her silent clowning as Tink in Peter Pan; a segment shared with Nick Nolte in the portmanteau film Paris Je T'Aime;