# The Strangers in the House

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- Book: [The Strangers in the House](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-simenon/the-strangers-in-the-house) ([The Strangers in the House.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-simenon/the-strangers-in-the-house.md))
- Authors: [Georges Simenon](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-simenon)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4148-709-9
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2021-11-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Hector Loursat, a lawyer in the small town of Moulins, has lived as a drunken recluse since his wife left him eighteen years previously. Unmoored from society and estranged from his daughter, he shuts himself away, numbed by endless bottles of burgundy. But when a dead man is found in his house one night, the resulting police investigation unearths secrets that shake the town - and Loursat's isolation - to the core. No longer able to ignore the world, he emerges to take on the murder case himself and confront the lives of Moulins' by-ways and back streets. In the progressive break-down of Loursat's self-imposed isolation, Simenon brilliantly depicts the psychology of loneliness and a man's tortured re-engagement with humanity and its darkest acts.