First UK edition, first impression from 1956 published by Cresset. The book is in near fine condition, pages clean, binding firm, no markings. The jacket has some shelf wear to extremities, there is chipping but no loss, Now in removable protective sleeve. Please see pics, for reference. About For two years the young, successful and handsome Walter Stackhouse has been a faithful and supportive husband to his wife, Clara. She is distant and neurotic, and Walter finds himself harbouring gruesome fantasies about her demise. Then Clara’s dead body turns up at the bottom of a cliff in a manner uncannily resembling the recent death of a woman named Helen Kimmel who was murdered by her husband. Under the intense scrutiny of the investigation he commits one mistake, then another, until – in true Highsmithian fashion – Walter finds his perfect life derailed.
