Kees Popinga is an average man, a solid citizen who might enjoy a game of chess in the evening. 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 watched impassively as the trains swept by; now he catches the first one out of town and soon commits murder before the night is out. How reliable is even the most reliable man's identity?

Georges Simenon (1903-1989) was born in Liege, Belgium. He went to work as a reporter at the age of fifteen and in 1923 moved to Paris, where under various pseudonyms he became a highly successful and prolific author of pulp fiction while leading a dazzling social life. In the early 1930s, Simenon emerged as a writer under his own name, gaining renown for his detective stories featuring Inspector Maigret. He also began to write his psychological novels, or romans durs - books in which he displays a sympathetic awareness of the emotional and spiritual pain underlying the routines of daily life. Having written nearly two hundred books under his own name and become the best-selling author in the world, Simenon retired as a novelist in 1973, devoting himself instead to dictating memoirs that filled thousands of pages.

Title: The Man Who Watched The Trains Go By

Series: n/a

Author: Georges Simenon

Hardcover: 195 pages

Printing: 1st

Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock (1946)

Language: English

Condition: Very Good + (See Condition Notes)

Condition Notes: 1st Edition Hardcover with jacket. Jacket is not price clipped. Light foxing to page ends , modest toning of textblock; else clean, tight, and square. Name and date written in ink to inside bottom of back cover, else unmarked. Chipping and small tears to jacket edges, large chip to bottom of back of jacket; else clean and intact. Jacket protected by an archival cover.