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Back In The Dark And The Rain

Patrick Marnham THREE CRIMES by Georges Simenon, translated by David Carter Hesperus, £7.99, pp. 130, ISBN 9781843914211 £639(plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 1 n 1931, a Belgian......

The Cry

Not the primeval cry that comes straight from the gut in that grotesque of notes that curdles you sick — but the saddest of sobs, the silent-bled cry where the face still......