 First edition cover | |
| Author | Georges Simenon |
|---|---|
| Original title | Lettre à mon juge |
| Translator | Louise Varèse (English) |
| Language | French |
| Genre | Psychological fiction |
| Publisher | Presses de la Cité |
Publication date | 1947 |
| Publication place | Belgium |
Published in English | 1953 (as Act of Passion) |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages | 250 (English edition) |
| ISBN | 978-3-257-24126-6 |
| Preceded by | Trois Chambres à Manhattan |
| Followed by | Maigret à New York |
Lettre à mon juge (Letter to My Judge) was written by Belgian author Georges Simenon in 1946 during his stay at Bradenton Beach, Florida and published in Paris the following year by Presses de la Cité. It is a dark psychological account of a man overcome by buried passions who becomes a murderer.
Unusually among Simenon's output, it is written in the first person.[1]
The novel was first published in English in 1953 by Routledge & Kegan Paul, translated by Louise Varèse. Most English readers know it under the title Act of Passion. [citation needed]
- ^ It is not unique in this respect: Maigret's Memoirs (1950) and The Man on the Bench in the Barn (1968) are also written in the first person.