Strangers in the house
by Georges Simenon
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Dirty, drunk, unloved, and unloving, Hector Loursat has been a bitter recluse for eighteen long years -- ever since his wife abandoned him and their newborn child to run off with another man. Once a successful lawyer, Loursat now guzzles burgundy and buries himself in books, taking little notice of his teenage daughter or the odd things going on in his vast and ever-more-dilapidated mansion. But one night the sound of a gunshot penetrates the padded walls of Loursat's study, and he is forced to investigate. What he stumbles on is a murder. Soon Loursat discovers that his daughter and her friends have been leading a dangerous secret life. He finds himself strangely drawn to this group of young people, and when one of them is accused of the murder, he astonishes the world by taking up the young man's defense.
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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 daughtersPeople
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The Strangers in the House
April 29, 2004, Penguin Books Ltd, Gardners Books, Penguin
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0141187662 9780141187662
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Les inconnus dans la maison
1985, Gallimard
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2070366642 9782070366644
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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.
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