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The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder
Stories that portray, with incisive humor, the murderously competitive desires of our most trusted companions. |
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The Blunderer
The rise and fall of a suburban husband who plots his wife's demise in fantasies gruesome and serene. |
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Deep Water
Vic Meller tries to win back his wife by asserting himself through a tall tale of murder—one that soon comes true. |
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A Dog's Ransom
A highminded criminal hits a wealthy Manhattan couple where it hurts the most: kidnaping their beloved poodle. |
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The Glass Cell - Coming June 2004
At last back in print, one of Patricia Highsmith's most disturbing works. |
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Little Tales of Misogyny
Darkly satiric, often mordantly hilarious sketches that upset our conventional notions of female character. |
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Mermaids on the Golf Course
The warm familiarities of middle-class life become the eerie setting for Highsmith's chilling portrayals of violence, secrecy, and madness. |
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Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
A brilliant collection of 28 short stories, a great majority of which have never been seen published in book form. |
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People Who Knock on the Door
A tale about blind faith and the slippery notion of justice that lies beneath the peculiarly American veneer of righteousness. |
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The Price of Salt
Now recognized as a masterwork, the scandalous novel that anticipated Nabokov's Lolita. |
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The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
Including over 60 short stories written throughout her career, collected together for the first time, The Selected Stories reveals the stunning versatility and terrifying power of Highsmith's work.
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Small g - Coming June 2004
Highsmith's final novel, published for the first time in America—a kinky, charming tale of love misdirected.
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Strangers on a Train
Highsmith's first novel and the basis for Hitchcock's classic film—the unforgettable tale of a chance encounter between two seemingly ordinary men who agree to swap murders. |
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A Suspension of Mercy
Sydney Bartleby has killed his wife, Alicia—at least he has thought about it. Of course he has; he's a mystery-script writer. But when Alicia takes a long, unannounced vacation, Sydney seizes the opportunity to perfect his artistic method. |
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This Sweet Sickness
David Kelsey has an unyielding conviction that life will turn out all right for him; he just has to fix The Situation: he is in love with a married woman. |
