The Old Man Dies Author:Georges Simenon Story of a fragmented family, whose members careen across each other's feelings after the death of old Auguste. He was a proud, secretive peasant from Auvergne, who had come to Paris as a young man and established a restaurant in the Central Market. His wife cooked their regional dishes and they prospered. Everything was paid for in ca... more »sh. They didn't trust banks, lawyers or bookkeepers. He left no will. They had three sons. Ferdinand was the oldest, a judge. Bernard was the youngest, a gambler, none too successful, the family leech. Antoine, the middle son, had joined his father at the restaurant and was responsible for making it enormously profitable--the fashionable place for discriminating diners to eat. When the old man dies, the youngest and oldest brother turn, with unfounded suspicion and variously motivated greed, on Antoine. They suspect his hand has been in the till, that he knows where and how the old man's money has gone.
Translation of La mort d'Auguste from the French by Bernard Frechtman.« less