| Killing a Mouse on Sunday | |
| Author: | Emeric Pressburger |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Thriller |
| Publisher: | William Collins, Sons |
| Release Date: | 1961 |
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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 guerilla fighter back across the border from France.
The anarchist Quico Sabaté's death inspired the book.[1]
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]