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A man becomes obsessed with the strange, suicidal woman he is asked by her husband to keep an eye on, a woman who may be the reincarnation of an ancestor who herself committed suicide years before. Clever and atmospheric French mystery, with obvious supernatural overtones, heavily weighted toward the psychological aspect of the case: the man -- lonely, insecure, and desperate -- latches onto the woman as his one shot at happiness. The authors effectively capture the man's contradictory and often self-defeating state of mind while providing some startling twists along the way. The basis for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and also published under that title, though the original title is more apt.
A man becomes obsessed with the strange, suicidal woman he is asked by her husband to keep an eye on, a woman who may be the reincarnation of an ancestor who herself committed suicide years before. Clever and atmospheric French mystery, with obvious supernatural overtones, heavily weighted toward the psychological aspect of the case: the man -- lonely, insecure, and desperate -- latches onto the woman as his one shot at happiness. The authors effectively capture the man's contradictory and often self-defeating state of mind while providing some startling twists along the way. The basis for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and also published under that title, though the original title is more apt.
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