by Patricia Highsmith · Planeta DeAgostini · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439592952
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«Extraños en un tren» is the mystery and suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith, published by Planeta DeAgostini in hardcover (284 pages, in Spanish).
On a train, Bruno, an unstable and manipulative man, proposes to Guy, an architect with a failed marriage, a criminal pact: each will kill the other's enemy to achieve a perfect alibi. Guy takes it as a joke, but Bruno fulfills his part and demands his; the encounter becomes a nightmare of guilt and blackmail.
Biblioteca Patricia Highsmith collection; translation by Jordi Beltrán of the original «Strangers on a Train» (1950). The author's first novel, nominated for the Edgar Award.
For lovers of psychological suspense and crime fiction. This novel inspired Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 movie.
Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories in a career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing was influenced by existentialist literature and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene.
