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This book is included in "The Insult" by Georges Simenon, "Memories of Anais", "Magret's Worries" and "The Black Ball". Never insult others! This is one of George Simenon's many warnings. He did not express this idea directly, but it appears in all his works. In "Memories of Anai", readers will get to know a repressed character who lacks masculine courage and ability. This person knows that he is incompetent in all aspects, is despised in his interactions with others, and is deceived and exploited at work. The only way he could save himself was to talk to a psychiatrist after killing someone. In "Magret's Worries", after two murders occur, all suspicions point to a young doctor who has a special liking for psychiatry and grew up in an aristocratic family in the context of the new era. But McGregor used his sharp professional instincts to clear his name, and to find out who could not stand the contempt of the victim, he locked in the murderer.

Revenge is secret. In the book, the author cherishes these two words as much as gold. However, terrible revenge surges between the lines. In "Prison", hatred that has been hidden for many years slowly surfaces after a bloody murder. The truth hits home after the older sister shoots the younger sister. In "The Uninvited Guest", a stranger quietly comes to a small town in the northern United States. Driven by inexplicable curiosity, a bar owner launches an investigation, reveals the stranger's true identity as a murderer, and delivers him to his enemies. Just like that, there was no police, no trial, and the town quietly returned to its former tranquility. Simenon's beloved Maigret also panics when faced with foreigners. The behavior of the stranger seemed to have a unique logic that Maigret could not figure out. In "The Maigret and Naouhe Incident", Maigret was unable to understand the motive of the foreign man at first. After the truth came out, he discovered that behind the murder was years of humiliation...

"Couple Hell" is a collection of novels, including the author's three novels "Cats", "The Man from London" and "Unfortunate Moments". In this book, Simenon attempts to reproduce the mutual torture and harm between couples in certain marriages in real life through the literary medium of novels, and to reflect on the cruelty of human nature.

Many of Simenon's characters were written to death, and very few of them died. Of all the ways of death, poisoning is the one he describes most brilliantly. The tragedy of "Sunday" happened on the beach in Cannes. The hotel owner couldn't bear it and came up with the idea of ​​poisoning his wife with his own specialty dish. In "The Iron Staircase," arsenic is once again a secret weapon. The protagonist suffers from stomachaches and becomes increasingly suspicious that his beloved wife may be repeating her old tricks... In the third novel, Maigret by Any Means, Maigret makes quick decisions and quickly gets to the bottom of things.

As we will see in Simenon's novels, people sometimes look at each other with a look of hatred that only exists between family members. It's a strong emotion that's easy to see and easy to feel. You may feel that Simenon's description is very realistic, without a trace of fiction. As the title of the novel "The Confessor" suggests, all members of a family seem eager to defend themselves, and everyone feels that they are victims. In the novel "Others", the author not only recreates the appearance of the entire city, but also creates a family legend from disappearance to return. In this story, secrets, accusations, resentments, intrigues and promises will take turns to play out. Simenon's daughter committed suicide. In "The Death of Auguste", Simenon said a sentence that he realized when summing up his life: "I was too ambitious, so in the end I had nothing."

This book is composed of "Suicide" by Georges Simenon, "The Disappearance of Odile", "The Window of Rouet" and "Magret and the Old Men". Simenonnon has always been fascinated by suicide. From his youth until the end of his life, the thought of suicide never left his mind. In addition, his beloved daughter committed suicide at the age of twenty-five. When readers read "The Disappearance of Odile", they will inevitably think of his beloved daughter repeating the story of that neurotic young girl over and over again in her mind and letters: leaving home and her father, a writer, not running away from home, but committing suicide. "The Window of Rouet's House" tells the story of an old maid who looks at the world through a window and eventually commits suicide. She kept monitoring other people's every move, and finally couldn't stand her failed life and committed suicide by taking sleeping pills. Others ended their lives with handguns. The elderly nobles in "Magret and the Old Men" experienced a tragic suicide.

Maigret's stories always begin with suspicion, and "The Flemish" is no exception. The entire city of Givey, located on the French-Belgian border, is accusing the hateful Petters family of causing the night watchman's daughter to disappear. From then on, all narratives revolve around suspicion. In "Death by the Bell", the hero is suspected of killing the daughter of his wife's friend in the boarding house, and everyone suspects him. So much so that the suspect finally committed a crime. Suspicion destroyed him. In "The Hatter's Ghost", the young tailor Kachoudas discovers that the city's important person Léon Rabe is the murderer of the series of murders that made La Rochelle a storm. But he couldn't say anything because he was a foreign immigrant. If he said it, all suspicion would be pointed at himself. The atmosphere of suspicion hangs over the entire story and is suffocating.