Highsmith, Patricia 1921-1995

Found in the street by Patricia Highsmith( Book )
47 editions published between 1986 and 2008 in 9 languages and held by 981 libraries worldwide
Two men are drawn together by the interest they have separately taken in Elsie Tyler, a young innocent girl working in a Greenwich Village coffee bar. Ralph follows Elsie with the idea of protecting her, and Jack introduces her to the Bohemian world.

The black house by Patricia Highsmith( Book )
31 editions published between 1981 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 961 libraries worldwide
Something the cat dragged in -- Not none 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.

Small g : a summer idyll by Patricia Highsmith( Book )
24 editions published between 1995 and 2005 in 6 languages and held by 953 libraries worldwide
In unmistakable Highsmithian fashion, Small g, Patricia Highsmith's final novel, opens near a seedy Zurich bar with the brutal murder of Petey Ritter. Unraveling the vagaries of love, sexuality, jealousy, and death, Highsmith weaves a mystery both hilarious and astonishing, a classic fairy tale executed with a characteristic penchant for darkness. Published in paperback for the first time in America, Small g is at once an exorcism of Highsmith's literary demons and a revelatory capstone to a wholly remarkable career. It is a delightfully incantatory work that, in the tradition of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, shows us how bizarre and unpredictable love can be.

Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a train( visu )
2 editions published between 1987 and 2004 in English and held by 843 libraries worldwide
Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train.

Slowly, slowly in the wind by Patricia Highsmith( Book )
39 editions published between 1979 and 2005 in 6 languages and held by 843 libraries worldwide

The tremor of forgery by Patricia Highsmith( Book )
52 editions published between 1969 and 2011 in 11 languages and held by 821 libraries worldwide
Kriminalroman.

A suspension of mercy by Patricia Highsmith( Book )
55 editions published between 1965 and 2008 in 9 languages and held by 815 libraries worldwide
Alicia Bartleby was right - she had died at least 20 times in her husband's imagination. But then Sydney was a thriller script-writer after all. When she takes an extended trip to Brighton without getting in touch with anyone, Sydney goes through the motions of being a wife-killer.

People who knock on the door by Patricia Highsmith( Book )
37 editions published between 1983 and 2007 in 6 languages and held by 743 libraries worldwide
Beneath the placid surface of life in a small town in America's Mid-West unpredictable forces are stirring. An atmosphere of tension and foreboding is created by the author through her picture of a family and a small society in a state of moral crisis.

Those who walk away by Patricia Highsmith( Book )
44 editions published between 1967 and 2006 in 8 languages and held by 734 libraries worldwide
"The honeymoon is over, as they say, the bride dead by her own hand. Ray Garrett, the grieving husband, convinces the police in Rome of his innocence, but not his thuggish father-in-law, an American painter named Ed Coleman, who shoots him at point-blank range and leaves him for dead. Ray survives, however, and follows Coleman to Venice, where the two fall into an eerie game of cat-and-mouse--Coleman obsessed with vengeance and Ray equally insistent on clearing his conscience, though each is at once the hunter and the hunted in a duel composed of tension, hiding, and guessing, and at times punctuated by violence that, even as each manages to walk away, draws them nearer to death."--P. [4] of cover.

The cry of the owl by Patricia Highsmith( Book )
88 editions published between 1962 and 2011 in 13 languages and held by 658 libraries worldwide
This "extraordinary story" (Julian Symons) begins with an act of naive voyeurism. Robert Forester, a depressed buy fundamentally decent man, liked to watch Jenny through her kitchen window -- a harmless palliative, as he saw it, to his lonely life and failed marriage. As he is drawn into her life, however, the recriminations of his simple pleasure shatter the deceptive calm of this small Pennsylvania town. With striking clarity and horrible inevitability, Forester is caught up in a series of deaths in which he is the innocent bystander, presumed guilty.