The Fool Killer
By Helen Eustis
1954
First Published
3.59
Average Rating
219
Number of Pages
"The only American novel...in this reviewers opinion comparable to J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye...imagination, suspense, terror, and a style perfectly suited to the narrative and characters." -Harrison Smith, Saturday Review — "This is quite the book. I do not recommend it to children...nor do I recommend it for persons hable to nightmares. But anyone who wants a mystery story with a twist, and I do not mean a detective story...this should be just the thing." -America
Avg Rating
3.59
Number of Ratings
29
5 STARS
17%
4 STARS
48%
3 STARS
17%
2 STARS
10%
1 STARS
7%
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Author
Helen Eustis
Author · 3 books
Helen Eustis (1916-) is an American translator (from French) whose reputation rests on two novels: The Horizontal Man (1946), which received an Edgar, and The Fool Killer (1954). Eustis was born in Cincinnati Ohio and educated at Columbia University New York. She was married to Alfred Young Fisher and later Martin Harris, and worked briefly as a copywriter. She has also written a children's story, Mr Death and the Redheaded Woman. The Fool Killer was made into a horror movie staring Anthony Perkins in a role not unlike that of his Psycho character Norman Bates.
