The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun is a mystery-thriller novel by Sébastien Japrisot, originally published in French as La Dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil in 1966.

Dany Longo, a very charming and shortsighted secretary in an advertising agency, is asked by her boss, Michel Caravaille, to stay overnight at his house to type up a document for him to take on a business trip to Geneva.

In the morning, Caravaille requests Dany accompany him and Anita to the airport to drive their large American car back home.

To frame Dany, he and Anita planted evidence including the coat, and set up various incidents on the road from Avignon to Paris to establish her guilt.

“His texts are narrated or focalized through characters whose restricted perspective on the events they experience keeps the reader equally in the dark until the moment of revelation comes for both of them.”[1] The novel is divided into four parts: "The Lady", "The Car", "The Glasses", and "The Gun."

Howard Junker in Newsweek called it "a chilling, baffling psychological fooler that sparkles with all the juicy terrors that can attack the heart and body", and added that Japrisot is "a great talent, whom students of the popular novel and of the narrative form in general will want to analyze.

"[2] NBMagazine said that "it’s contrived but elegantly conceived", and added that "the impossibly convoluted plotting that is now common place, and so popular, in modern psychological thriller writing owes a lot to this 1966 novel."

"[3] Kirkus Reviews called it "a circuitous, charged photomontage with the attractive cinematic effects it will undoubtedly retain on the screen.