List of works by or about Patricia Highsmith, American novelist.
Novels Strangers on a Train (1950) The Price of Salt (1952) (as Claire Morgan) (republished as Carol in 1990 under Highsmith's name) The Blunderer (1954) Deep Water (1957) A Game for the Living (1958) This Sweet Sickness (1960) The Cry of the Owl (1962) The Two Faces of January (1964) The Glass Cell (1964) A Suspension of Mercy (1965) (published as The Story-Teller in the USA) Those Who Walk Away (1967) The Tremor of Forgery (1969) A Dog's Ransom (1972) Edith's Diary (1977) People Who Knock on the Door (1983) Found in the Street (1986) Small g: a Summer Idyll (1995) The "Ripliad" The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) Ripley Under Ground (1970) Ripley's Game (1974) The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980) Ripley Under Water (1991)
Other books Miranda the Panda Is on the Veranda (1958) with Doris Sanders. . (children's book of verse and illustrations) Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction (1966). . (enlarged and revised edition, 1981, )
Short story collections
(Foreword by Graham Greene) Published by Doubleday in the USA as The Snail-Watcher and other stories The Snail-Watcher (Gamma, 1964); The Birds Poised to Fly; The Terrapin (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine); When the Fleet Was in at Mobile (London Life); The Quest for "Blank Claveringi" (Saturday Evening Post); The Cries of Love (Woman's Journal); Mrs. Afton, Among Thy Green Braes (EQMM); The Heroine (Harper's Bazaar); Another Bridge to Cross (EQMM); The Barbarians (La Revue da Poche); The Empty Birdhouse (EQMM). Contains the following short stories: Chorus girl’s absolutely final performance; Djemal’s revenge; There I was, stuck with bubsy; 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. Contains the following short stories in the 1977 English translation: The hand; Oona, the jolly cave woman; The coquette; The female novelist; The dancer; The invalid, or The bed-ridden; The artist; The middle-class housewife; The fully-licensed whore, or The wife; The breeder; The mobile bed-object; The perfect little lady; The silent mother-in-law; The prude; The victim; The evangelist; The perfectionist. Contains the following short stories: 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 dawns; Woodrow Wilson's neck-tie; One for the islands; A curious suicide; The baby spoon; Broken glass; Please don't shoot the trees. Contains the following short stories: 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. Contains the following short stories: 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 cruellest month; The romantic. Contains the following short stories: The mysterious cemetery; Moby Dick II, or The missile whale; Operation Balsam, or Touch-me-not; Nabuti; Sweet freedom! And a picnic on the White House lawn; Trouble at the Jade Towers; Rent-a-Womb vs. the mighty right; No end in sight; Sixtus VI, Pope of the Red Slipper; President Buck Jones rallies, and waves the flag. (publication of Highsmith stories broadcast on US television series Chillers)
(Introduction by Carmen Maria Machado).
Collected works
Essays and articles "The Sense of Form," The Writer, January 1948 "Suspense in Fiction," The Writer, December 1954 "Introduction" (1977), The World of Raymond Chandler. Miriam Gross, ed., Weidenfeld and Nicolson, United Kingdom: London. . .
"Foreword" (1987), Crime and Mystery: The 100 Best Books. H. R. F. Keating, Xanadu, United Kingdom: London. . . . "Scene of the Crime" (1989), Granta, Issue No. 29, Winter
Miscellaneous
Diaries and memoirs (Selections from Highsmith's diaries and notebooks.)
Biography, critical studies and reviews Biography
Reviews
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