Strangers on the Train

Look at the invention! We're going to murder each other, understand? I will kill your wife, and you will kill my father! We met on the train, okay? No one knows that we know each other! We were in different places at the time of the murder! Do you understand?

You may find yourself unexpectedly in the same compartment as the embodiment of evil. Guy Haines receives a sadistic offer from Charles Anthony Bruno, to whom he confides about his wife for the sake of conversation: To become a murderer! But they will exchange the people they will kill and commit the perfect murder. The train journey ends, but the sinister agreement of the two men has been signed, albeit unilaterally; When Bruno commits his own murder, Haines finds himself in the middle of a nightmare.

In his first novel, dated 1951, Highsmith creates a world in which even ordinary people who can describe themselves as good people can commit the most terrible crimes as a result of a series of events. Strangers on a Train, adapted by the famous director Hitchcock into the movie of the same name, is the cornerstone of psychological thriller.