The Blunderer

By: Patricia Highsmith

Narrated by: Robert Fass

For two years, Walter Stackhouse has been a faithful and supportive husband to his wife, Clara. But she is distant and neurotic, and Walter finds himself harboring gruesome fantasies about her demise. When Clara's dead body turns up at the bottom of a cliff in a manner uncannily resembling the recent death of a woman who was murdered by her husband, Walter finds himself under intense scrutiny. He commits several blunders that claim his career and his reputation, cost him his friends, and eventually threaten his life.

The Blunderer examines the dark obsessions that lie beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary people. With unerring psychological insight, Patricia Highsmith portrays characters who cross the precarious line separating fantasy from reality.

©2015 Patricia Highsmith (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Remiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's tales

This narrator seemed to drone. I finally gave up. Zzzzzzzzzz. The storyline was potentially interesting. The narration was not.

Crime...? No crime...? And Punishment

Damn, but the woman could write. A quintessential psychological thriller by a master-craftswoman. Dark!

Another great one!

This author never disappoints! I listened to audio version. Great story. Well paced. Ready for another one by Patricia Highsmith in my audio library.

Enjoyable listening experience

Another entertaining listen, full of suspense and mystery. Why commit murder when there are other ways for a man to escape a woman’s badgering behaviour. Everything is unnecessary but murder takes place all the same.

That is entertaining and weird

That is entertaining and weird. I recommend this book. Be warned that it is a bleak. dark world portrayed. Highsmith was such a good writer. Yet, by all accounts she was difficult. I have loved the first three of the Ripley books for decades. I can only dip into her work occasionally because it is so bleak. It is excellently written but bleak.