Man Who Watched Trains Go By

Description:

An unusual crime thriller about a seemingly respectable man who commits a murder in his home town of Groningen in Holland and then goes on the run. Imagining himself to be a criminal genius he plays a cat-and-mouse game with the police via the newspapers as he travels across Europe, finally ending up in Paris, where he becomes infatuated with a prostitute.

subjects: Identity (Pyschology),  Murder,  Fiction,  Detective and mystery stories,  Crime thrillers,  Maigret, jules (fictitious character), fiction,  Paris (france), fiction,  Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author),  France, fiction,  Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural,  Fiction, general,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Mentally ill

Places: Groningen,  Holland,  Belgium,  Paris,  France

Times: 1930's