
On the outskirts of Paris, a prostitute is found murdered in a vacant lot. In a seedy apartment house nearby lives pasty, fat Mr. Hire. Mr. Hire, who earns his living through a petty postal scam, is a convicted pornographer, a peeping Tom, and, once a week, the unlikely star of a Parisian bowling club, where people think he works for the police. He is a faceless man of regular habits who keeps to ...
Series: New York Review Books Classics
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics; Ex-Library edition (March 6, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590172280
ISBN-13: 978-1590172285
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.4 x 8 inches
Amazon Rank: 1356971
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Random events often change the course of a human life in Simenon's "hard" or literary novels.Monsieur Hire is not a heroic figure - a flabby little man with a thin moustache and a sleazy occupation. He's brilliant at bowling and clueless around women...
gives his neighbors the creeps. After the murder, Mr. Hire’s concierge points a finger at him: he was out late the night of the crime. The police have the suspect under 24-hour surveillance. They are only waiting for him to make the inevitable mistake and give himself away.Except that creepy Mr. Hire is in fact an innocent man, whose only mistake is to have fallen head-over-heels in love with the wrong girl.One of the most chilling and compassionate of Simenon’s extraordinary psychological novels, The Engagement explores the mystery of a blameless heart in a compromised soul.