She Who Was No More

Author:   Pierre Boileau ,  Thomas Narcejac ,  Geoffrey Sainsbury
Publisher:   Pushkin Press
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9781782270812


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   05 November 2015
Format:   Paperback
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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 Vera 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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Author:   Pierre Boileau ,  Thomas Narcejac ,  Geoffrey Sainsbury
Publisher:   Pushkin Press
Imprint:   Pushkin Vertigo
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781782270812


ISBN 10:   1782270817
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   05 November 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Language:   English

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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


[A] taut and ingenious thriller Crime Time


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Boileau-Narcejac is the nom-de-plume of Pierre Boileau (1906-89) and Thomas Narcejac (1908-98), one of France's most successful writing duos. Boileau and Narcejac both individually received the prestigious Prix du roman d'aventures before beginning a partnership that spanned four decades, from the Fifties to the Eighties, and produced more than fifty thrillers. Their works inspired numerous films, including Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and Henri-Georges Clouzot's Les Diaboliques, based on their 1952 debut novel She Who Was No More.

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