Summary
Patricia Highsmith: Strangers on a Train
Architect Guy Haines wants to leave his unfaithful wife Miriam and marry Anne, the woman he loves. On one trip, by chance, he met Charles Bruno, a rich man's son, on the train, not recognizing him as a psychopath and hochstapler. Charles will suggest that they exchange murders: Guy will kill Charles' father, and Charles will kill Guy's unfaithful wife, so no one will be able to discover them and prove the motives for these murders. Guy does not take Charles seriously, but shortly afterwards Miriam was indeed killed... Strangers on the Train is the first novel of the famous Patricia Highsmith published in 1950, which heralded a great writing career. The very next year, the famous Alfred Hitchcock made a film of the same name based on this novel, one of the most significant in his career.
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