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An edition of L' homme qui regardait passer les trains (1938)

L' homme qui regardait passer les trains

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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.

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Gallimard
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French

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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

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Groningen, Holland, Belgium, Paris, France

Times

1930's

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Cover of: Man Who Watched Trains Go By
Man Who Watched Trains Go By
2006, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
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Cover of: The man who watched trains go by
The man who watched trains go by
2005, New York Review Books
in English
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Cover of: Der Mann, der den Zügen nachsah.
Der Mann, der den Zügen nachsah.
June 1, 2002, Diogenes
Hardcover in German
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Cover of: L'Homme qui regardait passer les trains
L'Homme qui regardait passer les trains
1983, Edito-Service, [Diffusion Guilde du disque]
in French
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Cover of: Der Mann, der den Zügen nachsah
Der Mann, der den Zügen nachsah
1981, Diogenes Verlag
Paperback in German
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Cover of: L' homme qui regardait passer les trains
L' homme qui regardait passer les trains
1966, Gallimard
in French
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