The Widower - Le Veuf Author:Georges Simenon, Robert Baldick (Translator) Bernard Jeantet, a man who has spent most of his life sequestered from the world at large, a man who finds himself unequipped to deal with people, the city beyond his usual rounds, nature, sex...steps out of his safe world to help a prostitute who has been assaulted. He nurses her back to health, marries her and absorbs her into his hermetic wor... more »ld. Now eight years later she has been found at an hotel, dead. Clearly she has killed herself, but why? This is the mystery. « less