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Strangers on a train

In Patricia Highsmith's debut novel, we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in Highsmith's perilous world--where, under the right circumstances, anybody is capable of murder. The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1951 film, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith on a prolific career of noir fiction, and proved her mastery of depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life.

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  • "In Patricia Highsmith's debut novel, we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in Highsmith's perilous world--where, under the right circumstances, anybody is capable of murder. The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1951 film, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith on a prolific career of noir fiction, and proved her mastery of depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life."@en
  • "Two men meet by chance on a train and "swap" murders."
  • "Two men meet by chance on a train and "swap" murders."@en
  • "This chilling dramatisation of Patricia Highsmith's novel is a disquieting tale of obsession and peril. When two men meet on a train, they assume they'll never see each other again. But a misunderstanding binds them together, in word, deed and blood."@en
  • "Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno are passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in Highsmith's perilous world-where, under the right circumstances, anybody is capable of murder."@en
  • "Two men, a tennis star and a psychopath, meet by chance on a train and 'swap' murders. 'Some people are better off dead - like your wife and my father, for instance' as Bruno, the rich psychopath puts it, before proceeding to carry out his part of the bargain. A chance meeting and a rash conversation can lead to all sorts of trouble."@en

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  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
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  • "Fiction"
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  • "Detective and mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
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  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
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