Deathtrap: A Thriller in Two Acts by Ira Levin [TRADE PAPERBACK] 1982 • Penguin

Deathtrap: A Thriller in Two Acts by Ira Levin

TRADE PAPERBACK [1982] PENGUIN PLAYS

Vintage trade paperback in very good reading condition.

Ex-library copy with a few stamps on title and surrounding pages and some residue on underside of cover.   Spot of tape damage to cover and spine.     

Reads clean and unmarked with tanning to pages.

Seemingly comfortably ensconced in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a "dry" spell which has resulted in a string of failures and a shortage of funds.

A possible break in his fortunes occurs when he receives a script from a student in the seminar he has been conducting at a nearby college a thriller which Sidney recognizes immediately as a potential Broadway hit.

Sidney's plan, which he devises with his wife's help, is to offer collaboration to the student, an idea which the younger man quickly accepts. Thereafter suspense mounts steadily as the plot begins to twist and turn with devilish cleverness, and with such an abundance of thrills and laughter, that audiences will be held enthralled until the final, startling moments of the play.