He asks him to carry out an investigation into the behaviour of his wife, who is given to dream-like states and periods of apparent absence from the material world.įlavières had resigned from the police years before because he felt responsible for the death of a colleague who had fallen from a roof during a pursuit. Gévigne, a married man, contacts an old friend, a former policeman, after many years. Secondly, the book is better able, simply by the fact that it consists of words, to allow, or even to persuade the reader to reflect on what Madeleine appears to believe – something that is necessary if her situation is to be understood. The first is that the film didn’t try to convey anything of Paris at the time of the German invasion in 1940 – something that contributes to the pervasive atmosphere of uncertainty and confusion. Whilst the film was regarded as possibly Hitchcock’s best, it has to be said that the book is superior. It was made famous for English and American audiences by the Hitchcock film Vertigo of 1958. This is an English translation of a book co-written by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac in 1954.
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