Title: L' homme qui regardait passer les trains
First published: 1938
Description: An unusual crime thriller about a seemingly respectable man who commits a murder in his home town of Groningen in Holland and then goes on the run. Imagining himself to be a criminal genius he plays a cat-and-mouse game with the police via the newspapers as he travels across Europe, finally ending up in Paris, where he becomes infatuated with a prostitute.
Subjects: Identity (Pyschology), Murder, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Crime thrillers, Maigret, jules (fictitious character), fiction, Paris (france), fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), France, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Fiction, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Mentally ill
Places: Groningen, Holland, Belgium, Paris, France
Time periods: 1930's
LC classification: PQ2637.I53 H6213 2005, PZ3.S5892 Man5