- Publisher:
- PENGUIN
- Year of publication:
- 2017
- ISBN:
- 978-1-911350-09-5
- Pages:
- 208
THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
MARC BEHM
Eye of the Beholder is a cult classic, first published in the 1980s and now reissued,that has inspired both French and English film adaptations. Joanna Eris has a bad habit ofmarrying men that wind up dead. An unnamed private detective, known simply as'The Eye' is hired to investigate the death of her husband. The novel charts thedevelopment of the detective's dangerous obsession with a femme fatale, as hepursues her across the United States. 'One of the mostremarkable combinations of a private-eye novel and psychological suspensestory, with an entirely new slant, that has ever been published' The New York Times Book Review 'A pivotal workin the history of mystery fiction' Maxim Jablowski, The Guardian 'One of thegreat novels of obsessive detective fiction' Chris Petit 'An astonishingnovel that is unlike anything you have ever read. One of the great lost novelsof the last century.' Stav Sherez
