Deep Water
Published by Diogenes as Tiefe Wasser
Original Title: Deep Water
Vic Van Allen has a reputation of being slightly odd, but friendly and tolerant. His friends find him a bit too tolerant with regards to his wife Melinda's string of lovers, although Vic makes sure that these guys know that he's the jealous type. When one of Melinda's lovers is found murdered, Vic is swift to suggest that he might have been responsible. But as rumours start to spread among their friends, the boundaries between fiction and reality become blurred.
Contemporary Literature, Crime Fiction
304 pages
1976

978-3-257-20342-4
Patricia
Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith (1921 – 1995), born in Fort Worth, Texas, grew up in Texas and New York and studied Literature and Zoology. She wrote her first short stories while still in high school and initially earned a living as a comic book writer. She had her first international hit in 1950 with her debut novel Strangers on a Train, and the film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock catapulted her to worldwide fame. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno in 1995.

Photo: © Archiv Diogenes Verlag

Quotes

The Sunday Times, London

»If you read crime at all, or perhaps especially if you don't, you should read Deep Water.«

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Movie adaptations

1983
Tiefe Wasser, Franz Peter Wirth