Patricia Highsmith

From the ground-breaking noir fiction writer Patricia Highsmith comes her propulsive, engrossing debut, Strangers on a Train. The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1951 film.

"Fabulous, in all senses of that word . . . combining the best features of the suspense genre with the best of existential fiction--a thrilled reflection."--Paul TherouxElsie Tyler turns heads wherever she goes. After leaving her hometown upstate for Greenwich Village, the charming young waitress soon finds herself surrounded by admirers, including Jack and Natalia Sutherland, a married couple who invite Elsie into their bohemian inner circle and help her launch a career as a model. Meanwhile, Ralph Linderman, a middle-aged security guard with a dog named God, is nursing his own obsession with Elsie. He sets out to protect her from the "bad company" she attracts, but his uninvited affections are overbearing, possibly even pathological. When Ralph finds Jack's wallet on a morning stroll through the Village, and returns it, he is entirely unprepared for the complex maze of sexual obsession and disturbing psychological intrigue he is about to be drawn into. Originally published in 1986, Found in the Street is classic Highsmith--an engrossing, unsettling thriller that explores the bleakest alleyways of human desire, and a kaleidoscopic portrait of 1980s New York City. Patricia Highsmith, author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley, has been called "one of the finest crime novelists" by the New York Times and is now considered one of the most original voices in twentieth-century American fiction.

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Bestselling author Patricia Highsmith draws us deep into a cross-European game of cat and mouse in this masterpiece of suspense from the author of The Talented Mr Ripley.

People Who Knock on the Door is a tale about blind faith and the slippery notion of justice that lies beneath the peculiarly American veneer of righteousness.

From the bestselling author Patricia Highsmith comes a brilliantly gripping psychological thriller. Too much love can be a bad thing.

From one of the greatest crime novelists ever comes A Game for the Living, where threads of sexual jealousy and guilt are shot through with all of Patricia Highsmith's uncanny talent for the unexpected.

Completed just months before Patricia Highsmith's death in 1995, Small g explores the labyrinthine intricacies of passion, sexuality, and jealousy in a charming tale of love misdirected.

The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with this novel that will give dog owners nightmares for years to come. Highsmith blends savage humour with brilliant social satire in this dark tale.

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY VAL McDERMID Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteen-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love; Carol is a sophisticated, bored suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce and a custody battle for her only daughter. As Therese becomes irresistibly drawn into Carol's world, she soon realizes how much they both stand to lose... First published pseudonymously in 1952 as The Price of Salt, Carol is a hauntingly atmospheric love story set against the backdrop of fifties' New York.

The Library of America and editor Sarah Weinman redefine the classic era of American crime fiction with a landmark collection of four brilliant novels by the female pioneers of the genre, the women who paved the way for Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Lisa Scottoline. Though women crime and suspense writers dominate today s bestseller lists, the extraordinary work of the mid-century pioneers of the genre is largely unknown. Turning in many cases from the mean streets of the hardboiled school to explore the anxieties and terrors lurking in everyday life, these groundbreaking novelists found the roots of fear and violence in a quiet suburban neighborhood, on a college campus, or in a comfortable midtown hotel. Their work, influential in its day and still vibrant and extraordinarily riveting today, is long overdue for rediscovery. This volume, the second of a two-volume collector s set, gathers four classic works that together reveal the vital and unacknowledged lineage to today s leading crime writers. From the 1950s here are Charlotte Armstrong s "Mischief," the nightmarish drama of a child entrusted to a psychotic babysitter, Patricia Highsmith s "The Blunderer," brilliantly tracking the perverse parallel lives of two men driven toward murder, Margaret Millar s "Beast in View," a relentless study in madness, and Dolores Hitchens s "Fools' Gold," a hard-edged tale of robbery and redemption."

Främlingar på ett tåg - Snart som ny storfilm av teamet bakom Gone Girl: David Fincher, Ben Affleck & Gillian Flynn!» Highsmith skapar en infernalisk dramatik. Även om vi vet hur det slutar håller hon läsaren i ett järngrepp.« MAGNUS ERIKSSON, SVD»Obehaglig men suggestiv och skrämmande väl berättad roman om vad mord gör med mördaren« LOTTA OLSSON, DN»Främlingar på ett tåg är en av de mest mångbottnade thrillers jag läst. Den har alla ingredienser för att återutges och läsas om och om igen. Highsmith skriver inte bara obehagligt och nagelbitande, hon ställer också de stora, eviga frågorna.« DANIEL MÅRS, DAGENS BOKFrämlingar på ett tåg är en av den amerikanska litteraturens mest klassiska debutromaner. Guy Haines är på väg med tåg för att skilja sig från sin otrogna fru. Där möter han Bruno Anthony - som föreslår att de »utbyter mord« med varandra. Den spiral som därmed igångsätts hör till de rysligare i 1900-talslitteraturen, vilket inte minst Alfred Hitchcock insåg och använde boken för en av hans mest klassiska filmer. I översätting av Hans Ullberg och med ett förord av författaren och historikern Henrik Berggren. PATRICIA HIGHSMITH [1921 1995], född i Fort Worth, i Texas, är en av den amerikanska litteraturens stora författare. Highsmith är mest berömd för sina psykologiska thrillers om Tom Ripley men litteraturhistorien har också kommit att värdera hennes debutroman Främlingar på ett tåg [Strangers on a Train, 1950] och den lesbiska kärleksromanen Carol [1952] högt.» Den största kriminalförfattaren av alla!« | THE TIMES»En fantastisk studie i psykologisk tortyr och hur tunn den vardagliga fernissan är över det underliggande mörkret.« | TANA FRENCH»Främlingar på ett tåg är en moraliskt svindlande thriller.« | LOS ANGELES TIMES»Mord, i händerna på Patricia Highsmith, framstår nästan lika simpelt som att buckla någons kofångare.« | NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS»Patricia Highsmiths romaner är ojämförligt olycksbådande.« | THE NEW YORKER

First published in 1980, this is the fourth novel in Highsmith's hugely influential, groundbreaking Ripley series.

By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train comes a gripping novel that explores the shifting sands of moral values - is murder still murder when committed in a lawless place?

Melinda and Vic Van Allen seem like the perfect couple - young, wealthy and attractive. But when their love sours, their mind games reach a twisted climax. Now a major film starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas.