It was adapted into a 1982 film starring Christopher Reeve, Michael Caine and Dyan Cannon. Sidney Bruhl, a previously successful playwright, has had a series of box office flops and is having trouble writing. He receives a play from a student of his, Clifford, and tells his wife the play is a certain hit and that he may have to kill Clifford to claim it as his own.

A terrifying thriller from the author of Rosemary’s Baby.

‘More twists than a bucket of snakes’ – Daily Telegraph.