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100			_aSimenon, Georges
245			_aThe strangers in the house
260			_bPenguin Books, _c2021 _aLondon :
300			_a216 p . ; _c20 cm
365			_b599.00 _c₹ _d01
490			_aPenguin Classics
520			_aA new translation of a twisting detective novel. Hector Loursat, a lawyer in the small town of Moulins, has lived as a drunken recluse since his wife left him eighteen years previously. Unmoored from society and estranged from his daughter, he shuts himself away, numbed by endless bottles of burgundy. But when a dead man is found in his house one night, the resulting police investigation unearths secrets that shake the town - and Loursat's isolation - to the core. No longer able to ignore the world, he emerges to take on the murder case himself and confront the lives of Moulins' by-ways and back streets. In the progressive break-down of Loursat's self-imposed isolation, Simenon brilliantly depicts the psychology of loneliness and a man's tortured re-engagement with humanity and its darkest acts
650			_aLawyers France Fiction
650			_aPsychological fiction
650			_aMystery And Detective
650			_aLiterary
700			_aCurtis, Howard _etr.
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