The Cry Of The Owl

Informationen zum Autor Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921. Her parents moved to New York when she was six, and she attended the Julia Richmond High School and Barnard College. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided to become a writer at the age of sixteen. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, was made into a famous film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley, published in 1955, was awarded the Edgar Allen Poe Scroll by the Mystery Writers of America. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland in 1995. Her last novel Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later. Klappentext Reissue number 3. Robert Forester is accused of a crime he didn't commit! but he can't prove his innocence. Zusammenfassung Robert Forester didn't look like the kind of man to be a prowler. His ex-wife had told the police he was erratic! liable to violence! had even fired a gun at her. Maybe he was psychopathic murderer...

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Highsmith
• Publisher: Vintage, London
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1999
• EAN: 9780099282976
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928297-6
• No. of pages: 249
• Weight: 223 g
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage