Patricia Highsmith

The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder

Following the national bestseller Selected Stories, this fall brings the republication of a gripping Highsmith classic.

Stories from The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder portray, with incisive humor, the murderously competitive desires of our most trusted companions. In this satirical reprise of Kafka, cats, dogs, and the occasional cockroach are no longer benign elements of a happy home but actually have the power to destroy it.

"[Highsmith] is no more a practitioner of the murder mystery genre than are Dostoevsky, Faulkner and Camus."—Joan Smith, Los Angeles Times