In a Shallow Grave

James Purdy

Arbor House, 1977 - Fiction - 140 pages

Alex, David and Juliet are looking for a flatmate. They want someone like themselves - young charming and affluent. But the day after Hugo moves in he is found dead, locked in his room with a suitcase full of money under his bed. The question is what to do - keep the cash and dispose of the corpse or turn the money in? This BAFTA award-winning thriller is a low budget scottish film that soon became a cult hit. Shallow Grave stars Ewan McGregor, Kerry Fox and Christopher Ecclestone. Cert 18.

Contents

• Section 1: 11
• Section 2: 17
• Section 3: 51

About the author

James Purdy was born in Ohio in 1923. After serving in the Army, he attended the University of Puebla in Mexico before receiving an M.A. in Romance languages at the University of Chicago and spending some time at the University of Madrid. He taught at Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin from 1949 to 1953. During his lifetime he wrote about 20 novels as well as numerous short stories and plays. Some of his best-known works include the following: Color of Darkness (1957), Malcolm (1959), The Nephew (1960), Cabot Wright Begins (1964), I Am Elijah Thrush (1972), In a Shallow Grave (1976), and Narrow Rooms (1977). He also wrote the Sleepers in Moon-Crowned Valleys trilogy, which comprised of Jeremy's Version (1970), The House of the Solitary Maggot (1974), and Mourners Below (1981). He died on March 13, 2009 at the age of 94.

Bibliographic information

• Title: In a Shallow Grave
• Author: James Purdy
• Publisher: Arbor House, 1977
• ISBN: 0877951764, 9780877951766
• Length: 140 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General