The Venice Train

'There were some weeks that were painful nerve-racking. At the office or at home in the middle of a meal he would suddenly find his forehead bathed in sweat a tightness in his chest and at those times feeling everyone's eyes on him was unbearable.'During a chance meeting on the train from Venice to Paris a stranger asks Justin Calmar to deliver a briefcase for him to an address in Switzerland. Soon this ordinary family man will become hopelessly fatally ensnared in a world of guilt lies and paranoia.. Originally published in 1965 shortly after Simenon moved into the new home he had built in Épalinges Switzerland this chilling novel is a powerful exploration of the fragility of the human psyche.