# Signed, Picpus

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- Book: [Signed, Picpus](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-simenon/signed-picpus) ([Signed, Picpus.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-simenon/signed-picpus.md))
- Authors: [Georges Simenon](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-simenon)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4118-846-0
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2025-03-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Mechanically, he had put his pince-nez down on the blotter and looked at it there with his large, short-sighted eyes. It is at that moment that the strange thing happens. One of the lenses, acting as a mirror, reflected the criss-cross, hatched ink marks which had dried on the blotter and he could just make out a couple of words.