Strangers on a Train (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Patricia Highsmith
- First Published: 1950
- Type of Plot: Suspense
- Time of Work: The 1940’s
- Setting: Onboard trains, boats, and a plane; Texas, New York, and other states; Mexico and Haiti
- Principal Characters: Guy Daniel Haines, Charles Anthony Bruno, Miriam Haines, Anne Faulkner, Samuel Bruno, Arthur Gerard, Owen Markman
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Murder or homicide
- Locales: New York
The Novel
Strangers on a Train is a psychological thriller. The novel’s events take place over several months and seem to occur during the period of its composition in the 1940’s. The story opens with Guy Haines, a young architect, traveling on a train from his home in New York City to meet his wife Miriam, who lives in Texas. They have been separated for three years, and Miriam is pregnant by another man. The negative emotions stirred in Guy when he thinks about her are countered by thoughts of the woman he now loves, Anne Faulkner, and by the hope Miriam will...
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