Georges Simenon: The Snow Was Black (La Neige Tait Sale)
First Edition, First Printing. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1950, New York.
Simenon lived in Tucson, AZ, when he learned that his brother was killed in Vietnam. A few months later Simenon wrote one of the hardest of his romans durs, La Neige Etait Sale (The Dirty Snow), titled in English The Snow Was Black. In July 1950 he was notified by the French government that he was banned from publishing anything in France for 2 years (or draw any financial benefit from his literary activity) due to his activities during the war. And this and several other works were first published in the US. The novel received extensive praise, including a rave from Dashiell Hammett.
Georges Simenon (French-Belgian, 1903 – 1989) was a prolific author who published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret.

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