Patrick Hamilton was born in England in 1904 and died in 1962. He was a writer and playwright whose best-known creation is The Rope, a highly successful play that was adapted for the cinema by Alfred Hitchcock in 1948. In 1938 he premiered Gaslight, which was a huge success and was also made into a movie. But his work does not stop there, he wrote high-level novels, acclaimed by critics, such as: The Slaves of Solitude, and Last hangover, which Manantial publishes for the first time in Spanish. He was recognized by his peers as one of the best English writers of the first half of the 20th century (Graham Greene, J. B. Priestley and Doris Lessing, among others, held him in high regard), becoming a cult writer. Today his novelistic work has known a renaissance, manifested in reissues, television adaptations and critical reviews, both in England and in the United States.