It was the basis for the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak. In the end she turns out to be the same person he was in love with-an actress who was hired by his friend, in order to hide the murder of his actual wife. After his partial recovery he encounters a woman who is nearly the image of his dead love, and he becomes obsessed with her. When she falls to her death from a tower, he is unable to save her due to his fear of heights. The detective becomes obsessed with the woman, eventually falling in love with her, but unable to explain her strange trances and her belief in a previous life. He is hired to follow the wife of a friend who is puzzled by her strange behavior. The story concerns a former detective who suffers from vertigo. Narcejac Pierre Boileau.” Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors on the half-title page, “A Madame Cordroc ‘h, avec notre gratitude et l’homage de notre défèrente sympathie Th. $7,200.00 Item Number: 74068įirst edition of the French crime fiction duo’s third novel, preceding the British edition by two years and the American by three of the roman noir that was turned into the 1958 Hollywood classic Vertigo, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. BOILEAU, Pierre and Thomas Narcejac (writing as Boileau-Narcejac).
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