The White Horse Inn and Other Novels Author:Georges Simenon The White Horse Inn — Odd little inn... — One weekend, the Arbelet family stops in Pouilly, at the White Horse Inn. Maurice Arbelet is seduced from the outset by the atmosphere permeating the inn, where odd characters abound. — The White Horse Inn sits on the highway; the cuisine is renowned and life seems pleasant, simple... more » and sunny. But the boss exercises his prerogatives on the little sixteen-year-old maids, and the night watchman is a recently released criminal, bloated with soft fat, himself persuaded that one day he will kill again. No doubt one of those arrogant salespeople who wake him up at any time. Perhaps the boss, the cook, a card player, a client, at random, in one bloody stroke... The drama broods. The watchman knows all about the sordid affairs of some and the dirty deeds of others. "One day," he mutters to himself, polishing the black carcs in the garage at night, "one day... I'll have to kill one..."
The Grandmother
"I'm not nice and I'm too old to start now."
The Grandmother by Simenon focuses on the relationship between two women, an affluent young woman and her elderly grandmother. When the novel begins, Sophie Emel is living with her friend, Lelia in a large Parisian flat. A police superintendent with a rather sensitive problem contacts Sophie. It seems that fifteen years earlier, Sophie's grandmother, Juliette, simply disappeared. At age sixty-five, she walked away, and there's been no news of her since. But it seems that for this entire time, Juliette has actually been living nearby in a house that is about to be demolished. The old lady, now eighty, is the last tenant left, and although there are no utilities, she refuses to leave, threatening suicide if anyone tries to storm her tiny flat.
With no clear plan in mind Sophie agrees to try to persuade her tenacious grandmother to leave the depilated flat. To everyone’s surprise, Juliette agrees to leave, accepting Sophie’s offer to move into her flat. But almost immediately Sophie makes the offer, she begins to regret it....
The Country Doctor
Mysteries abound for a doctor with a talent for detective work!« less