Patricia Highsmith: 68 books

Book cover of Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011

Short stories filled with “satire, mischief, and menace” by the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley (Harper’s Bazaar).   These ten stories chronicle a world gone slightly mad, with dark, inventive takes on environmental degradation, apocalyptic disaster, political chaos, religious conservatism,...
Book cover of The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2002

Following the national bestseller Selected Stories, this fall brings the republication of a gripping Highsmith classic. Stories from The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder portray, with incisive humor, the murderously competitive desires of our most trusted companions. In this satirical...
Book cover of This Sweet Sickness
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2002

Following the national bestseller Selected Stories, this fall brings the republication of a gripping Highsmith classic. In 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...
Book cover of The Tremor of Forgery
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011

An expatriate is beset by dark temptations in this tale by the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley: “Her best novel” (The New Yorker).   Set in Tunisia in the mid-1960s, this is the story of Howard Ingham, an American writer who has gone abroad to gather material for a movie too sordid to be set...
Book cover of A Game for the Living
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014

Ramón, a devout Catholic, fixes furniture in Mexico City, not far from where he was born into poverty. Theodore, a rich German expatriate and painter, believes in nothing at all. You’d think the two had nothing in common. Except, of course, that both had slept with Lelia. Two form an unlikely friendship,...
Book cover of Merchants of Menace

Merchants of Menace

Mystery Writers of America Presents: Classics, #5

by Joan Aiken, Suzanne Blanc, Robert Bloch
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018

CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES BY 20 VENDORS OF VILLAINY Mystery Writers of America is pleased to present this sinister volume of larceny, deception, and murder, brought to you by the very finest purveyors of perfidy. Donald E. Westlake tells a tale of a cheating wife who tries to turn the...
Book cover of Crímenes imaginarios
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 10, 2014

Sidney y Alicia Bartleby, un joven matrimonio, residen en un pequeño cottage en la campiña inglesa, él escribiendo, ella pintando. Están casados desde hace varios años y llevan una vida muy aislada. Sidney está redactando e intentando vender unos guiones para una serie televisiva, lo que les...
Book cover of La máscara de Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 20, 2016

En esta novela, de un suspense trepidante, encontramos de nuevo a Tom Ripley –el protagonista ambiguo y fascinante de El talento de Mr. Ripley– algunos años después, con una reputación intachable y casado con una joven y hermosa heredera francesa. En su lujosa finca cerca de París, Ripley...
Book cover of El grito de la lechuza
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 10, 2014

Robert Forester, un hombre tímido, ingeniero aeronáutico, que abandona Nueva York porque ya no puede soportar las disputas con su mujer, se refugia en un lugar de Pennsylvania para trabajar y encuentra sosiego contemplando a través de las ventanas de su casita a una muchacha desconocida que se...
Book cover of El cuchillo
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 5, 2017

¿Por qué está Walter Stackhouse tan fascinado por el asesinato de Helen Kimmel? Ha recortado el artículo del periódico sobre el crimen, piensa visitar al marido de la víctima y puede que hasta escriba un ensayo sobre el hecho. ¿Qué le seduce en la violenta muerte de una respetable mujer de...
Book cover of El temblor de la falsificación
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 20, 2016

A Howard Ingham le resulta extraño que nadie le haya escrito desde que llegó a Túnez; ni el director de cine con el que se supone que debe encontrarse, ni su novia de Nueva York, que lo echa de menos (o al menos eso es lo que él espera). Mientras aguarda en un resort en la playa, incapaz de avanzar...
Book cover of La celda de cristal
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 15, 2016

Escrita bajo la influencia de Dostoievski, La celda de cristal combina el mis terio típicamente highsmithiano con una penetrante cri?tica de la devastacio?n psicolo?gica que acarrea el sistema penitenciario. Falsamente acusado de fraude, el tranquilo e ingenuo Philip Carter es condenado a seis solitarios...
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