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THIS SWEET SICKNESS by Patricia Highsmith

THIS SWEET SICKNESS

by Patricia Highsmith

Pub Date: Feb. 3rd, 1959
ISBN: 0393323676

Another Rorschach of a psychotic personality is a detailed, not a smudged, record of a schizoid's double vision: as David Kelsey, he leads a spotless life in a furnished room; weekends he spends as William Neumeister with Annabelle whom he loved and who married another man. It is Neumeister who is believed to have killed-accidentally- Annabelle's husband- following Kelsey's importunate letters and calls. But it is Kelsey who is disappointed again in his romance- and finally the two-way pattern leaves a single trail-for the police. A high level of conviction- from the everyday circumstances to the special symptomology of the case at hand.