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Portrait of Georges Simenon Photo: Keystone Pictures USA / TT (1973)

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Simenon, Georges

Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgian author. He was born to Catholic middle-class parents in Liège. Georges Simenon is considered among the foremost and most popular French-speaking authors of the 20th century. He was extremely prolific. His exact output is unknown, but estimates suggest that he wrote more than 300 novels, over a thousand short stories as well as innumerable articles ...

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Nick Velvet

Gender: Male

He is a professional thief, but he only steals worthless objects to order. This means that author Edward D. Hoch gives him double tasks: partly to carry out the robberies, partly to work out why somebody wants to pay his very high fee to steal, say, water or dust. Nick Velvet is a well-dressed, handsome, worldly gentleman with a patient girlfriend, Gloria Merchant, at his side.

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