![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Highsmith is the poet of apprehension rather than fear. Ultimately, what is in question is not justice or truth, but the state of his oddly quiet conscience. For reasons obscure even to himself, Ingham decides to stay and work on a novel, but a series of events – a hushed-up murder and a vanished corpse – lures him inexorably into the deep, ambivalent shadows of the town into deceit and away from conventional morality. The erratic mail eventually brings news of the director’s suicide. No one has written to him since he arrived – neither the film director who he is supposed to be meeting in Tunis, nor his lover in New York. Howard Ingham, an American writer, is in Tunisia working on a screenplay, and feeling stranded. ![]() ‘One of Highsmith’s finest novels’ NEW YORK TIMESĪ gripping novel that explores the shifting sands of moral values – is murder still murder when committed in a lawless place? ‘She kind of takes you by the hand and walks you toward the cliff. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Patricia Highsmith 317 books 3,556 followers She lived with her grandmother, mother and later step-father (her mother divorced her natural father six months before 'Patsy' was born and married Stanley Highsmith) in Fort Worth before moving with her parents to New York in 1927 but returned to live with her grandmother for a year in 1933. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense’ MARK BILLINGHAM Buy The Tremor of Forgery UK open market ed by Highsmith, Patricia (ISBN: 9780747575016) from Amazons Book Store. BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN ![]()
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