Suspects

A new edition of this landmark metafictional novel brings acclaimed film critic and writer David Thomson to a new generation of readers

Noah Cross, Norma Desmond, Norman Bates, Harry Lime - these are a few of nearly a hundred names that inhabit the mind of the narrator as he starts to compose short biographies of some of the most famous characters in the history of film noir. He sketches in whole lives, lives as intense as the dreams put up on the screen.

Then these characters start to meet ...