I didn't finish my Hitchcock reread in 2021, and it's taken a bit of time to get back to it in 2022... but I'm not giving up yet! The next story in the book is 'Killer on the Turnpike' by William P. McGivern. I thought the title of this one seemed familiar, but I wasn't sure when I started it if I remembered it from before. It's the longest one yet, so there was plenty of time for it to come back to me.
I'm not sure at all if I remembered this one. Every so often I got a little glimmer of almost-déjà vu (like when the killer tips his coffee cup back to get the sugar at the bottom), but it didn't come back much more than that. Admittedly, the bit about the killer having a plan of how to get off the turnpike did seem a bit familiar, so I'm pretty sure I sort of remembered this one, even if the details were very fuzzy.
Even if I don't properly remember reading it the first time round, I enjoyed Killer on the Turnpike. It's a proper cat-and-mouse tale of... well... a killer on a turnpike, and it captures the atmosphere and conditions of the road in a really compelling way.
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