The blunderer

Patricia Highsmith

Original title: The Blunderer

earliest edition we have, 1978 Calmann-Lévy, 1960 paperback 384 pages

Diogenes-Taschenbuch -- 20136

Two women die under similar circumstances--Melchior Kimmel killed his wife, Walter Stackhouse did not kill his. Lieutenant Corby, investigating the Stackhouse case, links it with the unsolved Kimmel murder. Then begins a nightmare for the two suspected men. Corby's wish to get at the truth becomes perverted by his ambition into an almost insane desire to extract confessions. Soon all three are caught in a trap from w...

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Editions we hold

Blunderer edition · 2015 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 384 pages · 9780349004532
Blunderer edition · 2015 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 9780349004525
Blunderer edition · 2001 · Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 288 pages · 9780393345049
The blunderer edition · 2001 · W.W. Norton · 265 pages
Blunderer hardcover · 1992 · Penguin Books · 304 pages · 9780140101164
The blunderer. edition · 1990 · Heinemann · 288 pages
Der Stu mper edition · 1986 · Diogenes-Verlag · 268 pages · 9783257201369
The blunderer paperback · 1985 · Penzler · 288 pages · 9780892961511
The blunderer edition · 1978 · Hamlyn
The blunderer edition · 1978 · Hamlyn · 288 pages
Le Meurtrier paperback · 1960 · Calmann-Lévy · 384 pages · 9782253056690

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