The blunderer
Highsmith, Patricia (, 1921-1995)
The blunderer / Patricia Highsmith - New York : W.W. Norton , 2001. - 265 p. ; 21 cm.
Two women die under similar circumstances--Melchior Kimmel killed his wife, Walter Stackhouse did not kill his. Lieutenant Corby, investigating the Stackhouse case, links it with the unsolved Kimmel murder. Then begins a nightmare for the two suspected men. Corby's wish to get at the truth becomes perverted by his ambition into an almost insane desire to extract confessions. Soon all three are caught in a trap from which there is no escape.
9780393322446
2001051431
Murder----Fiction
Suburban life ---Fiction
Psychological fiction
PS3558.I366 / B58 2001
MYS HIG
The blunderer / Patricia Highsmith - New York : W.W. Norton , 2001. - 265 p. ; 21 cm.
Two women die under similar circumstances--Melchior Kimmel killed his wife, Walter Stackhouse did not kill his. Lieutenant Corby, investigating the Stackhouse case, links it with the unsolved Kimmel murder. Then begins a nightmare for the two suspected men. Corby's wish to get at the truth becomes perverted by his ambition into an almost insane desire to extract confessions. Soon all three are caught in a trap from which there is no escape.
9780393322446
2001051431
Murder----Fiction
Suburban life ---Fiction
Psychological fiction
PS3558.I366 / B58 2001
MYS HIG