The Bottom of the Bottle (Signet 1144) (Complete and Unabridged)

New York: Signet, 1954. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. First paperback printing, and first separate printing. Edges rubbed, pages toned. 1954 Mass Market Paperback. 127 pp. Originally published in an omnibus volume entitled Tidal Wave. The Bottom of the Bottle is a novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. The original French version Le Fond de la Bouteille, written in 1948 when Simenon was living in Arizona, appeared in 1949. The novel is among his romans durs, a term roughly translated as hard, or harrowing, novels; it was used by Simenon for what he regarded as his serious literary works. The story is set in Arizona near the Mexican border: a rancher's life is disrupted by the appearance of his brother, who has escaped from jail and is determined to get across the Santa Cruz River to Mexico.