![]() ![]() ![]() George Simenon, the Belgium writer of the book, has an elegant, crisp writing style that keeps the pace moving nicely but unlike for example, Elmore Leonard, he makes very sharp observations about the characters and writes really wonderful, almost poetic, passages. The rest were placid and quiet, as it might be cows in a meadow watching a wolf browsing in their midst without the least astonishment.’ ‘It was odd: there were forty passengers, and only one of them, the widow Couderc, looked at the man any differently than you would have looked at just anybody. And it’s from here that the spider begins to spin its web, so to speak. He gets on the bus, see her, and when she steps off, after a nice bit of indecision, he gets off, offering to help her. A man is walking down a country road doing much to nothing. ![]() No contrived drama or major event has occurred. If you like Elmore Leonard, Hitchcock or Patricia Highsmith, you should enjoy this. ![]()
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