Book Description
'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times
Product Description
Robert Forester didn't look like the kind of man to be a prowler. His ex-wife had told the police he was erratic, liable to violence,had even fired a gun at her. Maybe he was psychopathic murderer...
From the Back Cover
'The basic nightmare situation - to be accused of a crime you did not commit and be unable to prove your innocence - is the subject of The Cry of the Owl... It's Kafka with a vengeance...compulsive' Spectator
Robert Forester didn't look like the kind of man to be a prowler. His ex-wife had told the police he was erratic, liable to violence, had even fired a gun at her.
Maybe he was a psychopathic murderer...
'A rare talent, a remarkable novelist...her books are written in elegant and lucid press' John Mortimer
About the Author
Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921 but moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided to become a writer at the age of sixteen. Her first novel Strangers on a Train was made into a famous film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland in 1995. Her last novel Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later
