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The Tremor of Forgery

A Virago Modern Classic
  • Author
    • Patricia Highsmith
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BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN

INTRODUCED BY DENISE MINA

'Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense' MARK BILLINGHAM

'She kind of takes you by the hand and walks you toward the cliff. I like that sensation' GILLIAN FLYNN

'One of Highsmith's finest novels' NEW YORK TIMES

A gripping novel that explores the shifting sands of moral values - is murder still murder when committed in a lawless place?

Howard Ingham, an American writer, is in Tunisia working on a screenplay, and feeling stranded. No one has written to him since he arrived - neither the film director who he is supposed to be meeting in Tunis, nor his lover in New York.

The erratic mail eventually brings news of the director's suicide. For reasons obscure even to himself, Ingham decides to stay and work on a novel, but a series of events - a hushed-up murder and a vanished corpse - lures him inexorably into the deep, ambivalent shadows of the town; into deceit and away from conventional morality. Ultimately, what is in question is not justice or truth, but the state of his oddly quiet conscience.

'Highsmith is the poet of apprehension rather than fear . . . Highsmith's finest novel to my mind is The Tremor of Forgery, and if I were asked what it is about I would reply, "apprehension"' GRAHAM GREENE

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  • Published: May 07 2015
  • Pages: 272
  • 152 x 200mm
  • ISBN: 9780349006277
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Press Reviews

  • Gillian Flynn

    Wall Street Journal
    I love [Highsmith] so much . . . what a revelation her writing is
  • Graham Greene

    Highsmith is the poet of apprehension rather than fear . . . Highsmith's finest novel to my mind is The Tremor of Forgery, and if I were asked what it is about I would reply, "apprehension"'
  • Jonathan Lethem

    Chicago Tribune
    One of her best books . . . She creates a lot of dread and a lot of apprehension very casually
  • New York Times
    One of Highsmith's finest novels
  • New Yorker
    Her best novel
  • J. G. Ballard

    Daily Telegraph
    Highsmith was every bit as deviant and quirky as her mischievous heroes, and didn't seem to mind if everyone knew it
  • The Times
    The no.1 Greatest Crime Writer
  • Vogue
    No one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously satisfying
  • Gillian Flynn

    She kind of takes you by the hand and walks you toward the cliff. I like that sensation