The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By - Georges Simenon

The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By, by Georges Simenon / 256-page paperback from Penguin / ISBN 9780241258552 / All the "discounted books" I'm selling are new/unread, but usually show some age or shelf wear. These copies are very clean but but have a remainder dot. I liked this book a lot; I think I read the old NYRB edition. *** “One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian In this Georges Simenon classic, a Dutch clerk flees to Paris with his crooked boss’s money and meets the woman behind the man “A certain furtive, almost shameful emotion . . . disturbed him whenever he saw a train go by, a night train especially, its blinds drawn down on the mystery of its passengers.” Kees Popinga is a respectable Dutch citizen and family man—until the day he discovers his boss has bankrupted the shipping firm he works for, and