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Table of Contents of The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith Foreword by Graham Greene Introduction THE ANIMAL LOVER'S BOOK OF BEASTLY MURDER Chorus Girl's Absolutely Final Performance Djemal's Revenge There I Was, Stuck with Busby Ming's Biggest Prey In the Dead of Truffle Season The Bravest Rat in Venice Engine Horse The Day of Reckoning Notes from a Respectable Cockroach Eddie and the Monkey Robberies Hamsters vs. Websters Harry: A Ferret Goat Ride LITTLE TALES OF MISOGYNY The Hand Oona, the Jolly Cave Woman The Coquette The Female Novelist The Dancer The Invalid, or, the Bedridden The Artist The Middle-Class Housewife The Fully Licensed Whore, or, the Wife The Breeder The Mobile Bed-Object Read this story The Perfect Little Lady The Silent Mother-in-Law The Prude The Victim The Evangelist The Perfectionist SLOWLY, SLOWLY IN THE WIND The Man Who Wrote Books in His Head The Network The Pond Something You Have to Live With Slowly, Slowly in the Wind Those Awful Dreams Woodrow Wilson's Necktie One for the Islands A Curious Suicide The Baby Spoon Broken Glass Please Don't Shoot the Trees THE BLACK HOUSE Something the Cat Dragged In Not One of Us The Terrors of Basket-Weaving Under a Dark Angel's Eye I Despise Your Life The Dream of the Emma C Old Folks at Home When in Rome Blow It The Kite The Black House MERMAIDS ON THE GOLF COURSE Mermaids on the Golf Course The Button Where the Action Is Chris's Last Party A Clock Ticks at Christmas A Shot from Nowhere The Stuff of Madness Not in This Life, Maybe the Next I Am Not As Efficient As Other People The Cruelest Month The Romantic