A Game for the Living

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Gentle, generous Theo would tell you that he feels quite logically happy about sharing Lelia with his best friend Ramón. Although the word 'logical' troubles him sometimes. (Can love ever be logical?) It is he, at any rate, who eventually finds Lelia dead in her painter's studio in Mexico City. She has been raped, her handsome face bloodily mutilated. Theo's thoughts immediately turn to Ramón as the natural suspect: hot tempered, moody, a man whose Catholic soul has already been damned by passion - unable to marry Lelia, unable to give her up... A confession is made, but are we able to believe it? In A Game for the Living threads of sexual jealousy and guilt are shot through with all Patricia Highsmith's uncanny talent for the unexpected. Cover Photograph: Patrick Llewelynn-Davies