She Who Was No More
by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.Filmed as Les
Diaboliques, a.k.a. Diabolique, The Devils, The
Fiends (1955), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot.
ASIN: B00TNBPJ9O
Published by Pushkin Vertigo.
English language translation
edition 2015.
Published 2015.
First published 1951.
Description:
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; The Fiends), starring Simone Signoret
and Véra 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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