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The Strangers in the House

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241487099

  • Length: 224  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 168g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Strangers in the House

'Quite simply a masterpiece' John Banville

'I've just found a stranger in my house. In a bed on the second floor. He was dying when I got there. You're going to have to deal with it'

Hector Loursat has been a drunken recluse since his wife left him eighteen years ago. Shut away in his dilapidated mansion in the small town of Moulins, he barely speaks to his daughter. But when the sound of a gunshot penetrates the padded walls of his study one night, and he discovers a body, Loursat is forced to act. No longer able to ignore the world, he determines to get to the truth of what happened, and save an innocent life.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241487099

  • Length: 224  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 168g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • Quite simply a masterpiece

    John Banville

  • More philosophically profound than any of the fiction of Camus or Sartre, and far less self-conscious. This is existentialism with a backbone of tempered steel

    New Republic

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About the Author

Georges Simenon

Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. He is best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret novels and his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.

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The Strangers in the House by Georges Simenon

When the sound of a gunshot penetrates the padded walls of Hector Loursat's study one night, and he discovers a body, he is forced to act. No longer able to ignore the world, he determines to get to the truth of what happened, and save an innocent life.
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