Killing a Mouse on Sunday

Killing a Mouse on Sunday is a 1961 thriller novel by the British-Hungarian writer Emeric Pressburger, best known as a film producer. In Francoist Spain a Civil Guard officer attempts to lure a notorious exiled guerrilla fighter back across the border from France.

Killing a Mouse on Sunday
First edition
AuthorEmeric Pressburger
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherWilliam Collins, Sons
Publication date1961
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

The anarchist Quico Sabaté's death inspired the book.[1]

Adaptation

edit

In 1964 it was adapted into a Hollywood film Behold a Pale Horse directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, and Omar Sharif.[2]

References

edit

Bibliography

edit
  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.