The Scapegoat (Du Maurier novel)
1957 novel by Daphne du Maurier / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Scapegoat is a 1957 novel by Daphne du Maurier. In a bar in France, a lonely English academic on holiday meets his double, a French aristocrat who gets him drunk, swaps identities and disappears, leaving the Englishman to sort out the Frenchman's extensive financial and family problems.[1]
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Author | Daphne du Maurier |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Mystery fiction |
Publisher | Victor Gollancz (UK) Doubleday (US) |
Publication date | 1957 |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 368 pp. |
OCLC | 4542871 |
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The story has been the basis of two films: one in 1959 starring Alec Guinness and Bette Davis and one in 2012 starring Matthew Rhys.[2]