There is treachery in the everyday

Ira Levin: the man is dead; the day is November 12th, 2007 and announced tonite.

And what better occasion to revisit his work:

Novels
* A Kiss Before Dying (1953)
* Rosemary's Baby (1967)
* This Perfect Day (1970)
* The Stepford Wives (1972)
* The Boys from Brazil (1976)
* Sliver (1991)
* Son of Rosemary (1997)

Plays
* No Time For Sergeants (1956)
* Interlock (1958)
* Critic's Choice (1960)
* General Seeger (1962)
* Dr. Cook's Garden (1968)
* Veronica's Room (1974)
* Deathtrap (1978)
* Break a Leg: A Comedy in Two Acts (1981)
* Cantorial (1982)

Musicals
* Drat! The Cat! (1965)

While a prolific writer for television (not included in the works above) and the stage, he produced "only" seven novels in four decades. But what works! Read!; we should all carry his sense of pacing; and be, as such, distinctly measured (while we live in our glass houses, provided for us by circumstance).

You see, the line between thriller and prosaic existence has never been finer; how can we ever be at peace if anything can happen?