- Deep Water (novel)
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- See also: Deepwater
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Deep Water is a suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith, first published in 1957 by Harper & Row.
Synopsis
In the small town of Little Wesley, intellectual publisher Victor Van Allen decides to discourage his wife Melinda’s many lovers by hinting to them that he may have killed her previous beau, Malcolm McRae. However, the game turns sour when strangers begin to grow wary of him, thus denting his social esteem and also blurring the line between fiction and reality; after a while, Vic wonders if he may really have blood on his hands.
The novels of Patricia Highsmith Strangers on a Train (1950) • The Price of Salt (as Claire Morgan) (1952) • The Blunderer (1954) • The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) • Deep Water (1957) • A Game for the Living (1958) • This Sweet Sickness (1960) • The Cry of the Owl (1962) • The Two Faces of January (1964) The Glass Cell (1964) • A Suspension of Mercy (1965) • Those Who Walk Away (1967) • The Tremor of Forgery (1969) • Ripley Under Ground (1970) • A Dog's Ransom (1972) • Ripley's Game (1974) • Edith's Diary (1977) • The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980) • People Who Knock on the Door (1983) • Found in the Street (1987) • Ripley Under Water (1991) • Small g: a Summer Idyll (1995)Categories:- 1957 novels
- Novels by Patricia Highsmith
- 1950s novel stubs
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