He sees a doub le of the girl (Judy, played by Kim Novak). A detective (played by James Stewart) is forced to retire after his fear of heights causes the death of a fellow officer and the girl he was hired to follow. Vertigo is Alfred Hitchcock’s romantic and disturbing story of obsession, manipulation and fear. Here are eight stories about doppelgängers that I’ve loved. How amazing it would be to bump into your own doppelgänger! Obviously it would be totally unbelievable (unless you’re an identical twin, of course :)) but who cares? Let’s cast disbelief firmly into the wind! I’ve always found the whole idea of having a double fascinating, ever since I was a child. My romantic mystery, In the Mouth of the Wolf, features a trope that’s run through many stories in one form or another for centuries: the doppelgänger, or double.
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