Title: Les fiançailles de M. Hire
First published: 1957
Description: Simenon (1903-1989), creator of Inspector Maigret, dispassionately describes the fate of the odd Mr. Hire, a reclusive middle-aged man whose life of dull routine begins an inevitable slide into disaster when a prostitute is brutally murdered near his apartment in a Paris suburb. Guilty only of a slightly disreputable occupation, a voyeuristic fascination and an unusual physical appearance, Hire inadvertently seals his fate with mundane, unremarkable observations and suggestions.
Subjects: Murder, Fiction, Paris (france), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, crime, Romance literature
LC classification: PQ2637.I53 F513 2007, PQ2637.I53 F5 1933