Vertigo

An irresistible gift edition of the classic French noir novel that inspired Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo

In World War II-era Paris, a troubled-ex policeman is entangled in a web of deceit and lies when he investigates a woman's strange behavior

Flavières doesn't really want to investigate his old's friend's wife, but he doesn't feel he has much of a choice. Madeleine has been behaving strangely, and her husband wants answers -- answers that she isn't willing to give him.

As WWII rages around him, Flavières is drawn into an obsessive cat-and-mouse chase across Paris. Soon his intrigue is replaced by obsession and his dreams by nightmares, as he edges towards discovering a dark, terrible secret.

The most celebrated collaboration of a ground-breaking crime-writing duo, Vertigo is the timeless story of morality and revenge, and the inspiration for Hitchcock's iconic film.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Pierre Boileau, Pierre Narcejac Boileau, Boileau Pierre, Thomas Narcejac, Narcejac Thomas
• Assisted by: Geoffrey Sainsbury (Translation), Sainsbury Geoffrey (Translation), Geoffrey Salisbury (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9781782279747
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-974-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / General, FICTION / Thrillers / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION / Media Tie-In, Classic crime, Fiction in translation, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Psychological thriller, Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Historical crime and mysteries