The Venice train

By Georges Simenon

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151935068
• ISBN13: 9780151935062
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

GREAT RIDE

I have read many Simenon novels and this is one of his best. It deals with a moral dilemma and has a great set up with incredible suspense. A man mysteriously ends up with a suitcase full of money belonging to a mysterious stranger and goes on the run with it. The ending is a little bleak and I think could have been a little more satisfying, but the journey there is definitely worthwhile. An interesting psychological portrait of a man dirven by inexplicable impulses that he cannot come to terms with. Why we lie? Why we cheat? WHy we do self-destructive things? Those are the questions which plague Simenon and ourselves.