The tremor of forgery

Belletristik

• DR.D : Belletristik : Romane, Erzählungen und Novellen : Kriminalromane
• FS.E : Fremdsprachige Schriften : Einzelne Sprachen : Englische Schriften

Verfasser:
Highsmith, Patrica

Verfasser Angabe:
Patrica Highsmith. Introd. by Denise Mina

Personen:
Mina, Denise [Vorw.]

Sprache:
Englisch

• Englisch
• Kriminalgeschichte
• Schriftsteller
• Selbstmord
• Tunesien

Verlag:
Virago Press

Erscheinungsort:
London

Jahr:
2015

Umfang:
258 S.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
978-0-349-00627-7

Reihe:
Virago Modern Classics

Inhalt:
Howard Ingham, an American writer, is in Tunisia working on a screenplay, but when the film's director fails to arrive, he feels stranded. The erratic mail eventually brings news of his suicide. For reasons obscure even to himself, Ingham decides to stay on and work on a novel, but a series of peculiar events - a hushed-up murder and a vanished corpse - lures him inexorably into the deep, ambivalent shadows of the Arab town; into deceit and away from conventional morality. Ultimately, what is in question is not justice or truth, but the state of his oddly quiel conscience.