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This is both a fascinating concept and intriguing read. Graysmith is the author of the New York Times bestselling true-crime classic Zodiac, (filmed with Robert Downey Jr and Jake Gyllenhaal as Graysmith himself), and in The Girl in Alfred Hitchcock's Shower he again investigates a bizarre real-life mystery: the disappearance of the body double for Janet Leigh in Alfred Hitchcock's classic Psycho. In this, the 50th anniversary year of Hitchcock's most admired movie, Graysmith reveals all the behind-the-scenes details of both the reel and real life murders of the girl in Hitchcock's shower.

Marli Renfro, a striking model and dancer, was an integral part of one of the most iconic scenes in American film, but in 1988 she had inexplicably vanished. It was suspected that she was murdered by a man – dubbed the Psycho-Killer – who shared Norman Bates's unhealthy obsession with his mother. In this groundbreaking narrative, Graysmith calls Mari's sudden disappearance in to question, asking whether her end echoes that of the girl in Alfred Hitchcock's shower or if she is still alive today?

Graysmith has produced a truly unique book –one that falls between stools in the most intriguing of fashions.

THE GIRL IN ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S SHOWER

By Robert Graysmith

Titan Books, £8.99




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Posted at 10:46AM Friday 19 Feb 2010

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