The Blunderer

THE BLUNDERER was written by Highsmith in between Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley. The novel follows the young, successful and handsome, Walter Stackhouse who seems to have it all, that is, until the day his wife's body is found at the bottom of a cliff. Under the intense scrutiny of the investigation he commits one mistake, then another, until - in true Highsmithian fashion - Walter finds his perfect life derailed. Now Walter is running from the obsessions of the murderer, and the suspicions of the lead cop, not to mention his own increasingly life-threatening blunders.

'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times

“Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing ....bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night”

Almost unputdownable. Miss Highsmith writes about men like a spider writing about flies. - The Observer

Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing ....bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night - The New Yorker

Almost unputdownable. Miss Highsmith writes about men like a spider writing about flies. - The Observer

Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing ....bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night - The New Yorker

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley, published in 1955, introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Graham Greene called Patricia Highsmith 'the poet of apprehension', saying that she 'created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger'. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.

'Highsmith was a genuine one-off, and her books will haunt you' Daily Telegraph Walter Stackhouse, young, successful and handsome, seems to have it all. That is, until the day his wife's body is found at the bottom of a cliff. He may have thought about killing Clara, but he didn't, and in trying to prove his innocence, Walter's perfect life is derailed. Under the intense scrutiny of the investigation, he commits one mistake after another, which cost him his career, his reputation, his friends . . . and maybe even his life. 'To call Patricia Highsmith a thriller writer is true but not the whole truth: her books have stylistic texture, psychological depth, mesmeric readability' Sunday Times

THE BLUNDERER was written by Highsmith in between Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley . The novel follows the young, successful and handsome, Walter Stackhouse who seems to have it all, that is, until the day his wife's body is found at the bottom of a cliff. Under the intense scrutiny of the investigation he commits one mistake, then another, until - in true Highsmithian fashion - Walter finds his perfect life derailed. Now Walter is running from the obsessions of the murderer, and the suspicions of the lead cop, not to mention his own increasingly life-threatening blunders.'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times

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