Strangers on a Train
  • Published: 15 October 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099283072
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $24.99

Strangers on a Train

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20 Jul 2021
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15 Oct 1999
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The classic thriller behind the Hitchcock film - soon to be remade by David Fincher, director of Gone Girl

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.
  • Published: 15 October 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099283072
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Patricia Highsmith

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.

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Praise for Strangers on a Train

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
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