Tag: Georges Simenon


  • Mona Sanders is a character in the short story called The Hand, written by Georges Simenon. How Mona Sanders loves her husband Ray Sanders โ€œRay was a great guy,โ€ she (Mona) murmured a little later. โ€œ (Simenon, p. 35)

  • Isabel Dodd is married to Donald Dodd and this is what her husband sees as her love for him: “She did not look at me as a stranger because of what I had done, either, but I had become someone else, someone she had known for a long time without intuiting his true personality.” (Donald…

  • Donald Dodd is a character in The Hand, a short story by Georges Simenon. How Donald Dodd loves, or not loves his wife, Isabel: “In short, I needed to have things all compatible and well organized around me.” (said Donald, Simenon, p. 52) How Mona loves her husband Ray Sanders “Ray was a great guy,”…

  • The 6th hand is that sixth hand of a character, namely Mona Sanders. She told Don Dodd that she was splitting with him, to get married to John Falks, a producer of three best series, in CBS. Falks, recently divorced, has a young daughter named Monique, who needs a mother. Don Dodd is the protagonist…

  • Donald Dodd had his nagging suspicion that his wife Isabel had visited his father, who is almost 80 years old. Someone had told the old man about Donald and Mona, Ray Sanders’ wife. Don was stubbornly convinced that Isabel must have communicated this info to his aged father.

  • Isabel put Donald in the center, and had Mona on the other side of Don. He saw Mona’s hand by her side as she lay on the tin, portable mattress. He was seduced and decided he was going to take Mona at the right time.

  • I searched for blog challenges and came across Shelf Reflection’s book reading prompts. We take a prompt and find a book that fits the prompt. Or the other way around. I have included my post links in the titles of the books I have read and reviewed here in this blog or elsewhere. As you…

  • Monsieur Georges Simenon was born on Feb 13 1903 and passed away, at the age of 86, on Sep 4 1989. The best writing habit I’ve read from Mon. Simenon, is that he wrote a chapter a day. I have bought two books of Simenon; The Cat and The Hand. I have finished The Cat…