Monsieur Monde Vanishes (New York Review Books Classics)
“Attention should be paid to the New York Review of Books' continuing reissues of  Georges Simenon. Simenon was legendary both for his literary skill–four or five books  every year for 40 years–and his sexual capacity, at least to hear him tell it.  What  we can speak of with some certainty are the novels, which are tough, rigorously unsentimental  and full of rage, duplicity and, occasionally, justice. Simenon's tone and dispassionate  examination of humanity was echoed by Patricia Highsmith, who dispensed with the  justice. So far, the Review has publishedTropic Moon, The Man Who Watched Trains  Go By, Red Lights, Dirty SnowandThree Bedrooms in Manhattan;The Strangers in the  Housecomes out in November. Try one, and you'll want to read more.” –The Palm Beach  Post"A truly wonderful writer…marvellously readable, lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with that world he creates."— Muriel Spark