A Suspension of Mercy
Highsmith was NOT a crime writer....: ...and this novel is an example. Because her characters often engage in activities that are illegal or, at least, immoral, American publishers have classified her work as "crime fiction," or something [... more]
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Mystery Cats: Felonious Felines from Ellery Queen's ...
Author: Ruth Rendell Author: Lilian Jackson Braun Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.08720836 EAN: 9780816155002 Format: Large Print ISBN: 0816155003 Publication Date: 1994-08 [... more]
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Strangers on a Train
 Subtly menacing, every sentence slowly picking at your sanity...: Patricia Highsmith was ahead of her time, constructing the perfect crime novel long before it would truly be appreciated. Sadly she was never as famously accepted as she could have been [... more]
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Those Who Walk Away (Highsmith, Patricia)
Done Just Right: "Those Who Walk Away" is a concise, fast reading novel of low-keyed suspense. The background is an appropriately gloomy wintertime Venice. Ray, the key character, has lost his wife to suicide. Ed is the unforgiving, not to [... more]
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The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's ...
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A Game for the Living (Highsmith, Patricia)
Another winner from this little-known genius: Yep -- it's another fine piece of work from Patricia Highsmith, who was, I'm becoming increasingly convinced, one of the 20th century's most accomplished and important writers. I wonder how long it will take [... more]
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Talented Mr. Ripley (Everyman's Library Classics)
Amazon.com Review: One of the great crime novels of the 20th century, Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley is a blend of the narrative subtlety of Henry James and the self-reflexive irony of Vladimir Nabokov. Like the best modernist fiction, [... more]
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Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of ...
Really high on Highsmith: She's baaack! A second anthology of Patricia Highsmith's short fiction, this time featuring stories that have not been published until now. Unlike the first collection of her short fiction (where many of the stories struck me as [... more]
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Deep Water
Never better motives for becoming a murderer: Another brilliant story of bottled up emotions, of a protagonist who seems to be free of passion, seemingly has no sexual urges, takes insult with apparent lack of interest, and yet slowly builds up the [... more]
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The Blunderer
Mid-Range of Highsmith's Writing: For Highsmith fans, The Blunderer has just been re-released in a new series put out by Norton press. (Norton is also planning to re-release other Highsmith books for which they have publishing rights.) My review of the [... more]
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The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder
A manly crime that this book is out of print: Why is this book out of print? Why it's so hard to find in America the complete work of one of her finest writters? My copy of Patricia Highsmith's The Animals-lover's book of beastly murders is dated 1975, [... more]
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The Tremor of Forgery (Highsmith, Patricia)
Highsmith at her best: Sometime after Patricia Highsmith's death in 1995, my local bookstore moved her books from the "Mystery & Thriller" section to the more general "Fiction" section, a final irony for a writer who had been [... more]
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