Strangers on a Train
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PAULA HAWKINS, AUTHOR OF GIRL ON A TRAIN”Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?”From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities. The psychologists would call it folie a deux…Strangers on a Train was Patricia Highsmith’s first novel, and adapted into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock.’A true original in crime fiction’ The Times
Additional information
Weight | 0.206 kg |
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Dimensions | 1.6 × 12.9 × 19.7 cm |
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Format | Paperback |
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Pages | 288 |
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Year Published | 2021-4-15 |
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Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
ISBN 10 | 1784876771 |
About The Author | Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921 but moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided to become a writer at the age of sixteen. Her first novel Strangers on a Train was made into a famous film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland in 1995. Her last novel Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later |
Review Quote | A gem… A magnificent suspense |
Other text | A writer who created a world of her own – a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger |