The psychologists would call it folie a deux... 'Bruno slammed his palms together. '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.
Strangers On A Train
Strangers On A Train
Summary
The psychologists would call it folie a deux...'Bruno slammed his palms together. I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! 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.
Strangers On A Train Summary
Strangers On A Train Reviews
"A gem... A magnificent suspense" * Daily Mail *
"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" -- Graham Greene
"A true original in crime fiction and a superb writer" * The Times *
"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" -- Graham Greene
"A true original in crime fiction and a superb writer" * The Times *
About
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
Additional information
GOR008619474
9780099283072
0099283077
Strangers On A Train by
Used - Like New
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
1999-08-12
272
N/A
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