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Book SynopsisNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, A KIND OF MURDER, STARRING PATRICK WILSON AND JESSICA BIEL
By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train
''Almost unputdownable. Miss Highsmith writes about men like a spider writing about flies'' OBSERVER
''History will place Highsmith at the top of the pyramid'' A. N. WILSON, DAILY TELEGRAPH
''Peerlessly disturbing . . . bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night '' NEW YORKER
For two years, the young, successful and handsome Walter Stackhouse has been a faithful and supportive husband to his wife, Clara. She is distant and neurotic, and Walter finds himself harbouring gruesome fantasies about her demise. Then Clara''s dead body turns up at the bottom of a cliff in a manner uncannily resembling the recent death of a woman named Helen Kimmel who was murdered by her husband. Under
Trade Review
Almost unputdownable. Miss Highsmith writes about men like a spider writing about flies. The Observer Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing ...bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night The New Yorker One of the greatest modernist writers Gore Vidal My suspicion is that when the dust has settled and when the chronicle of 20th-century American literature comes to be written, history will place Highsmith at the top of the pyramid, as we should place Dostoevsky at the top of the Russian hierarchy of novelists -- A.N Wilson Daily Telegraph
