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Simenon, Georges
Strange Inheritance
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, London;
Date of Publication: 1950
Stock Code: 12282
FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Octavo, pp. 222. Publisher’s jade green cloth with title blocked in black to spine in an unclipped, pictorial dust-jacket. Spine and areas of boards sunned, some loss and edgewear to dust-jacket, dust-jacket spine also sunned. Strange Inheritane by the famed Maigret author Georges Simenon follows protagonist Gilles returning from Norway to find his uncle has died and left a huge fortune, ownership of a transport company and house should Gilles continue to let his family keep living there. As time passes, it seems this family may be keeping secrets about the death of Gilles uncle. Translated from French by Geoffery Sainsbury. £125.00