The Eye of the Beholder
Published on 29. April 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-901982-03-9 (ISBN)
Description
'One of the punchiest, bleakest, weirdest hard-boiled crime novels I've ever come across, and one of the most original. This slender novel covers 30 years and details over 100 killings. It's a picaresque-epic thriller, a nihilistic road movie: Sam Spade meets Badlands. Vicious episodes occur in almost every section of the country, and the back and forth travel patterns weave a web across the USA. Behm's Eye is a voyeuristic near-sociopath who spends three decades dogging the footsteps of a bi-sexual serial murderess who, in a chameleon-like series of disguises, wanders the country acquiring then snuffing out one well-heeled partner after another. The Eye of the Beholder is a private-eye novel to end all private-eye novels' - Los Angeles Herald Examiner
Reviews / Votes
Eye of the Beholder is a strange, amazing, wonderful novel. Buy this book! * Independent on Sunday * Part epic road movie, part thriller, part love story, with more atmosphere and attitude than you can shake a .45 at * Daily Mirror * A strange book, wild, puzzling, at times more road novel than crime fiction. A classic * Time Out * the private eye novel to end all private eye novels -- Judith Gray * Crime Time Online * If you like vamp noir, check out The Eye of the Beholder -- Jeremy Megraw * crimefictionlover.com *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bedford Square Publishers
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-901982-03-9 (9781901982039)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Marc Behm has had a successful career as a film scriptwriter (his credits include Charade and Help) and as an author. He died in France, where he had lived for many years, in 2007. His novels include the classic The Eye of the Beholder which is a literary siamese twin to Afraid to Death and which No Exit also publishes.