As is the case with many of Georges Simenon’s books, this is a novella rather than a novel, but as is also the case with Simenon, he packs as much into these 178 pages as many ot
Georges Simenon is considered by many to be one of the greatest writers in French of the twentieth century; The People Opposite is one of his earliest literary novels and was writt
Penguin’s Georges Simenon reissue programme put crime aficionados in their debt with such titles as The Man who Watched Trains Go By. P.D. James called Simenon a writer who, more
