Penguins 2314 - Ticket of Leave

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Pty Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia La Veuve Couderc first published 1942 This translation first published by Routledge & Kegan Paul 1954 Published in Penguin Books 1965 Copyright © Georges Simenon, 1942

Made and printed in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd, Aylesbury, Bucks Set in Linotype Granjon

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