Every Saturday evening,travelling salesman Ferdinand Ravinel returns to his wife,Mireille,who waits patiently for him at home. But Ferdinand has another lover,Lucienne,an ambitious doctor,and together the adulterers have devised a murderous plan.Drugging Mireille,the pair drown her in a bathtub,but in the morning,before the "accidental" death can be discovered,the corpse is gone-so begins the unraveling of Ferdinand's plot,and his sanity...This classic of French noir fiction was adapted for the screen by Henri-Georges Clouzot as Les Diaboliques (The Devils),starring Simone Signoret and V茅ra Clouzot,the film which in turn inspired Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. A second movie version,Diabolique,followed in 1996,starring Sharon Stone.
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Publisher: Pushkin PressISBN: 9781782270812Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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(A) taut and ingenious thriller Crime Time Gallic noir at its most psychologically acute Crime Scene A supreme example of polished crime plotting - Barry Forshaw FT A dark and mind-bending novella... an absolute gem of a book Bookbag One gigantic,nerve-stretching twist saved right for the final page. This is an absolute psychological classic for those readers who seek more depth to their crime fiction. Crime Review
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