London: The Cresset Press, 1950.
Price: $3,500.00
Hardcover. Uncorrected proof of the first English edition. Fine in unprinted wrappers with applied label of Paul Popper & Co. Literary Services. A touch cocked else fine. Author's ingenious first novel in which two potential murderers exchange victims in order to provide alibis for each other. The book established the author as a master of psychological suspense and was the basis for the memorable film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock. She followed it with her equally successful *The Talented Mr. Ripley*. The only copy of the proof we've seen.
Item #536301
Patricia Highsmith
birth name: Mary Patricia Plangman
born: 1/19/1921
died: 2/4/1995