Vertigo Av Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac

<b>An irresistible gift edition of the classic French noir novel that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s <i>Vertigo</i><br><br>In World War II-era Paris, a troubled-ex policeman is entangled in a web of deceit and lies when he investigates a woman’s strange behavior</b><br><br>Flavières doesn’t really want to investigate his old’s friend’s wife, but he doesn’t feel he has much of a choice. Madeleine has been behaving strangely, and her husband wants answers — answers that she isn’t willing to give him.<br><br>As WWII rages around him, Flavières is drawn into an obsessive cat-and-mouse chase across Paris. Soon his intrigue is replaced by obsession and his dreams by nightmares, as he edges towards discovering a dark, terrible secret.<br><br>The most celebrated collaboration of a ground-breaking crime-writing duo, <i>Vertigo</i> is the timeless story of morality and revenge, and the inspiration for Hitchcock’s iconic film.