Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith

The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder

Nowhere is Patricia Highsmith's affinity for animals more apparent than in The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder, for here she transfers the murderous thoughts and rages most associated with humans onto the animals themselves.You will meet, for exampl

The Talented Mr. Ripley / Ripley Under Ground / Ripley's Game

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre appear here together in hardcover for the first time.Suave, agreeable, and completely amoral, Patricia Highsmith's hero, the inimitable Tom Ripley, stops at nothing--not e

A Suspension of Mercy

Sydney Bartleby has killed his wife, Alicia—at least he has thought about it, compulsively, over and over again, plotting schemes, designing escapes, forging alibis. Of course he has; he's a mystery-script writer. But when Alicia takes a long, unannounc

The Glass Cell

Rife with overtones of Dostoyevsky, The Glass Cell combines a quintessential Highsmith mystery with a penetrating critique of the psychological devastation wrought by the prison system.In 1961, Patricia Highsmith received a fan letter from a prison inmate

A Game for the Living

Ramón mends furniture. Theodore paints. A devout Catholic, Ramón lives in Mexico City, not far from where he was born into poverty. Theodore, a rich German transplanted to a country where money buys some comfort but no peace, believes in nothing at all.

The Cry of the Owl

Robert Forester didn't look like the kind of man to be a prowler.His ex-wife had told the police he was erratic, liable to violence, had even fired a gun at her.Maybe he was a psychopathic murderer...

Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules

A must-have for the fans of the #1 bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris, a collection of his favorite short fiction from Flannery O'Connor to Tobias Wolff.A bestseller in its own right and a must-have for fans of the #1 bestselling

Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s

This Library of America volume, with its companion devoted to the 1930s and 40s, presents a rich vein of modern American writing, works now being recognized for the powerful literary qualities and their unique, sometimes subversive role in shaping modern

People Who Knock on the Door

In a pitiless story of prying suburban self-righteousness, Patricia Highsmith introduces the Alderman family as they descend into moral crisis.When small-town insurance salesman Richard Alderman becomes a born-again Christian, his once tight-knit family q