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187 pages, Pocket Book
First published May 22, 1952






It sometimes happens that a man at home moves about the house, goes through familiar motions, everyday motions, his expression unguarded, and, suddenly raising his eyes, he notices that the curtains have not been drawn and that people are watching him from outside."Belle" fits into the revitalized, refocused, Simenon-In-Exile period of the mid-fifties, the years in America that recharged his vision and distilled his ideas of the psychological novel. What is equally important is that it is near the top of the list, a peer to the likes of Three Bedrooms In Manhattan and Red Lights. Most readers will find interestingly similar concerns, continuing motiefs that are threaded through this era.