Ed,
Eye of the Beholder was published in 1980. It's Behm's only
mystery, as far as I know. Maxim Jakubowski also put it out
in one of the Zomba Black Box Thrillers along with Queen of
the Night, a tale of Nazi Germany, and Ice Maiden, about a
modern day female vampire. I haven't read either of the
others, which is odd considering how much I thought of Eye of
the Beholder. It was probably the first PI novel I read with
an unreliable narrator (something Jakubowski used to great
effect in his one PI novel, On Tenderness Express).
According to Jakubowski's intro, Eye started out as a film
script, set in Madrid. However, when the film never got made,
Behm relocated it in the US. In turn, that novel has been
adapted into two films. As far as I know, the first, Mortelle
Radonne, has never been released in the US. I'd like to see
it. The second, the recent Eye of the Beholder is supposed to
be pretty bad. I haven't seen it. Since Ashley Judd and Ewan
MacGregor are roughly the same age, I'm guessing they
completely dropped the father/daughter dynamic that is at the
core of the book.
Behm was associated with some very successful films,
including Charade and the Beatles' Help.
Mark
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