 This tradition dates back to the inverted detective stories of R Austin Freeman, and reached an apotheosis of sorts in "Malice Aforethought" written by Francis Iles (a pseudonym of "Anthony Berkeley").In the same vein is Iles's "Before the Fact" (1932), which became the Hitchcock movie "Suspicion".Successors of the psychological suspense novel include Patricia Highsmith's "This Sweet Sickness" (1960), Simon Brett's "A Shock to the System" (1984), and Stephen Dobyns's "The Church of Dead Girls" (1997).