![]() Hitchcock’s work also dealt with conflicting realities: ‘Vertigo’ again, but also ‘North by Northwest’, in which a man is mistaken for a spy who does not exist. ![]() This pattern is reflected in ‘The Real-Town Murders’ in the way the protagonist, a private detective called Alma, must return every four hours to administer medical treatment to her beloved partner, Marguerite. Then there is the cyclical, even repetitive nature of the obsessions explored in Hitchcock’s work, like James Stewart’s character in ‘Vertigo’ falling for the same murder victim twice. ![]() There are all kinds of satisfying Hitchcockian nods throughout the novel: a virtual Hitch crops up at one point and, in a nod to the Master’s brief appearances in his own work, the murder victim is called Adam. Hitch never made the film because the idea was too impossible even for him, so Adam Roberts has taken up the challenge and transferred the idea to the realm of science fiction in ‘The Real-Town Murders’. ![]() Alfred Hitchcock once described opening a film by following a car being made in an automated factory at the end of the process, the boot opens to reveal a dead body. ![]()
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