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Strangers on a Train
  • Published: 20 July 2021
  • ISBN: 9781784876777
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $24.99

Strangers on a Train

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20 July 2021
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15 Oct 1999
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Reissued to mark the centenary of Patricia Highsmith and the upcoming BBC adaption, Ripley, these beautiful new editions mark Highsmith's entry into Vintage Classics

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
  • Published: 20 July 2021
  • ISBN: 9781784876777
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • 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

Her writing is clean, exact, polished to a hard glint; she combines an acute emotional perceptiveness with a disturbing readiness to torture her characters and, by extension, her audience

Stylist