The Crime writer

Jill Dawson

earliest edition we have, 2016 Hodder & Stoughton, 2016

In 1964, the eccentric American novelist Patricia Highsmith is hiding out in a cottage in Suffolk, to concentrate on her writing and escape her fans. She has another motive too - a secret romance with a married lover based in London. Unfortunately it soon becomes clear that all her demons have come with her. Prowlers, sexual obsessives, frauds, imposters, suicides and murderers: the tropes of her fictions clamour for...

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The Crime writer edition · 2017 · 247 pages · 9781444731132
Crime Writer edition · 2017 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780062669599
Crime Writer edition · 2016 · Hodder & Stoughton · 9781444731156
Crime Writer edition · 2016 · Hodder & Stoughton · 352 pages · 9781444731125
The Crime Writer hardcover · Sceptre · 9781444731118

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