Title: Les inconnus dans la maison
First published: 1940
Description: Hector Loursat, a lawyer, has lived as a drunken recluse since his wife left him 18 years before. Estranged even from his own daughter, his mind is numbed by bottles of Burgundy. But when a body is found in his home, the investigation unearths secrets that shake Loursat's seclusion to the core.
Subjects: Fiction, roman dur, France, fiction, Maigret, jules (fictitious character), fiction, Paris (france), fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Romance literature, Lawyers, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Lawyers, Fathers and daughters
Places: France
People: Hector Loursat