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“That’s what I thought, but not necessarily, really,” she said. “If I were Charlie, if I were trying to copy Strangers on a Train, then I would select as a victim someone who is already likely to be murdered. My mind is going blank right now, but suppose someone just went through a bitter divorce, or . . .” “Who’s the guy in New York, who stole everyone’s money?” I said. “Bernie Madoff?” “Right, him.” “He’d work, but there are maybe too many people who want him dead. I would pick one-half of a bad divorce, I think.
This is basically the plot of one of his later books, A Talent for Murder
The man who killed Eric Atwell for me. The man who wanted Norman Chaney dead. What if he’d figured out who I was? It wouldn’t have been too hard. Maybe he found me by doing some research into Eric Atwell. If he’d done just a little looking, he would have found out about Claire’s car accident, and the husband left behind, a man who worked at a mystery bookstore. Not only that, but a man who had once published a blog post about his eight favorite perfect murders, one of them being Strangers on a Train. It would have been easy to find me. And once he did, then what? Maybe he’d enjoyed killing
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He decides he has to find out who he swapped with, who murdered Chaney for him. It wouldn’t have been hard. A little snooping and he’d discover that Eric Atwell had been questioned by police in regard to a motor vehicle accident that took the wife of Malcolm Kershaw. Not only that, but Malcolm Kershaw works at a mystery bookstore. He’d even once posted a list of eight perfect murders in fiction. It included Strangers on a Train.
Why did he need to spell this out again? He does it a third time when he confronts the murderer
