The Stowaway
The Stowaway
Publisher Hamish Hamilton
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There's a fortune to be had in the South Pacific, and two men, one a dapper English gentleman, the other a tough French ex-convict, are in search of it. Also on board, the passenger ship, moreover, as it carries them from Panam to Tahiti, is a mysterious stowaway who equally has reasons for wanting to track down the young Frenchman called Rene Marechal...
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About the Author
Georges Simenon
Georges Simenon was a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret.
Simenon's first novel, Au Pont des Arches, was written in June 1919 and published in 1921 under his "G. Sim" pseudonym. Writing as "Monsieur Le Coq", he also published more than 800 humorous pieces between November 1919 and December 1922.
From 1921 to 1934 he used a total of 17 pen names while writing 358 novels and short stories.
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Book Condition & Notes
Fine first edition, with some foxing to flyleaves where the jacket doesn't touch. In a good unclipped dust jacket with chipping to front cover and to top of spine, and to top back corner. Several splits along creases/folds
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