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La Disparation d’Odile first published in France, 1971 Translation published in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton, 1972 Published by Penguin Books in The Ninth Simenon Omnibus 1976 Published in Peacock Books 1977
Copyright © Georges Simenon, 1971 Translation copyright © Georges Simenon, 1972 All rights reserved
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