Books like L' homme qui regardait passer les trains by Georges Simenon

Maigret spends a tense night at Three Widows' Crossroads, investigating the murder of a Jewish diamond‑merchant and later the shooting of his widow, unraveling a tight criminal web.

A fatal encounter in Paris brings Inspector Maïgret into a tangled web of murder, desperation, and greed, as he investigates a dead man's silhouette behind frosted glass.

Chief Superintendent Maigret investigates a bizarre murder in Paris: an unidentified vagrant found dead in an upper-room, clothes and hair that defy his ragged appearance.

Maigret investigates the murder of Mary Lampson aboard a canal system and a yacht, uncovering a tangled web of crime among canal workers and the wealthy.

"Pourquoi toute l'image ̌tait-elle centře sur sa fille ? Cela le g̊nait un peu, ou plut̥t c'est apr̈s surtout qu'il y pensa, une fois le train en marche. Et encore ne fut-ce, en řaliť, qu'une impression fugace, ňe au rythme du wagon et aussit̥t absorb̌e par le paysage. Pourquoi Joše et non sa femme ou son jeune fils, alors qu'ils ̌taient group̌s tous les trois dans la moiteur du soleil ? Peut-̊tre parce que la silhouette de sa fille, dans une gare, debout devant un train en partance, ̌tait plus incongrue ? Elle avait douze ans; elle ̌tait grande et mince, les jambes et les bras encore gr̊les, et les bains de mer, le soleil de la plage avaient donň ̉ses cheveux blonds des reflets argenťs"--Page 4 of cover. A casual meeting with a mysterious man on a train from Venice leads Georges Justin Calmar into a series of serious surprises that cause him to lose control over his own life. The man asks Calmar to deliver a package to a person in Paris for him. But when Calmar gets to the recipent's apartment, he finds her dead, and panics. While searching newspapers for clues to his situation, he finds out that the man who gave him the package has been murdered as well. Calmar, now frantic and thinking he will be the next victim, looks into the package and finds a fortune in various currencies. Attempting to hide his windfall from his wife and coworkers, Calmar becomes increasingly paranoid.

When a reinforced cask from Paris arrives at London docks, a gold-filled spill uncovers a woman's hand and a murder mystery that forces Scotland Yard’s methodical Inspector Burnley to sift through alibis and lies.

Maigret digs into a small-town murder in Saint‑Aubin‑les‑Marais, uncovering a web of jealousy, deceit, and a desperate husband’s rage that leads to a dramatic confrontation.

Detective Jules Maigret pursues a case that takes him from a Parisian hotel to the Côte d'Azur and Lake Geneva as he questions a vanished countess after her suicide attempt.

Detective Maigret is pulled into a web of political corruption when a distraught minister invites him to a secret meeting, uncovering scandal and cover‑ups that threaten Parisian power.