You Can't Catch Me
by Joyce Carol Oates
2020-05-12 20:51:28
A âsinister, edgy, delectably creepyâ story of mistaken identity, murder, and madness from a #1 New York Timesâbestselling author (San Francisco Chronicle). Tristram Heade is a reclusive, repressed Virginia bachelor and antiquarian boo...
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A âsinister, edgy, delectably creepyâ story of mistaken identity, murder, and madness from a #1 New York Timesâbestselling author (San Francisco Chronicle). Tristram Heade is a reclusive, repressed Virginia bachelor and antiquarian book collector who has traveled to Philadelphia to keep an appointment with a fellow dealer. But when he arrives, his life takes an unexpected and dizzying turn. A train porter returns his lost wallet, but the identification inside belongs to a man named Angus Markham, a gambler and real estate prospector. When Tristram returns to his hotel, heâs greeted by staff as Markham, and in his room, he finds Markhamâs suitcase and clothesâas well as Fleur Grunwald, a woman who certainly knows her lover, Markham, when she sees him. And she seems to desperately need his help. At first baffled, then intrigued, Tristram decides to play alongâonly to discover that heâs not in control of the game. Especially when he takes on Fleur and her sadistic husband and finds himself lost in a conspiracy of madness and murder. If only Tristram could be certain whether heâs to be the killerâor the victim. From a winner of countless awards, the author of such bestsellers as We Were the Mulvaneys and Black Water, You Canât Catch Me is âa tense psychological suspense novel filled with dual identities, double crosses, and duplicity. It is also filled with philosophical and literary allusions suggesting that this is less about the mystery of Markham than about the fragile mystery of identity. Itâs just what one would expect from the celebrated Joyce Carol Oates, who uses the pseudonym âRosamond Smithâ for her psychological thrillersâ (Library Journal).
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