by Daphne du Maurier · Penguin Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140017236
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«The Scapegoat» is the suspense novel by Daphne du Maurier, published by Penguin Books Ltd in paperback (320 pages, in English).
An English academic on vacation in France meets a French aristocrat identical to him and agrees to take his place for a week. Turned into a decoy for forces threatening the count's family, he pretends before servants, relatives and lovers while trying to uncover the secret weighing on the castle.
The novel was originally published in 1957; the Penguin Books Ltd edition, from 1970, has 320 pages.
Suitable for fans of suspense classics, gothic narrative and stories of identity and doubles.
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her parents were actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and his wife, actress Muriel Beaumont. Her grandfather George du Maurier was a writer and cartoonist. Du Maurier spent much of her life in Cornwall, where most of her works are set. As her fame increased, she became more reclusive.
