Les diaboliques - (Celle qui n'etait plus) by Pierre Boileau

Les diaboliques - (Celle qui n'etait plus) by Pierre Boileau

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Les diaboliques - (Celle qui n'etait plus) by Pierre Boileau

A couple's murderous plot goes horribly awry in this French noir classic that later inspired the Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece Psycho

Every Saturday evening, travelling salesman Ferdinand Ravinel returns to his wife, Mireille, who waits patiently for him at home. But Ferdinand has another lover, Lucienne--an ambitious doctor--and together the adulterers have devised a murderous plan.

Drugging Mireille, the pair drown her in a bathtub. But before the accidental death can be discovered, the corpse mysteriously disappears. So begins the unraveling of Ferdinand's plot, and his sanity.

This classic of French noir fiction was adapted for the screen by Henri-Georges Clouzot as Les Diaboliques (The Devils), starring Simone Signoret and V ra Clouzot, the film which in turn inspired Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. A second movie version, Diabolique, followed in 1996, starring Sharon Stone.
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ISBN 13 9782070410248
ISBN 10 2070410242
Title Les diaboliques - (Celle qui n'etait plus)
Author Pierre Boileau
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Gallimard-Jeunesse
Year published 1973-05-01
Number of pages 185
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.