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Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year, she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley (1955), introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.Bears Highsmith's unique, unsurpassed mixture of unsettling psychological insights, moods of tension and malice, and an ending of brilliant ambiguity
The Times
Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the <b>gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense</b>
- Mark Billingham,
Highsmith was every bit as <b>deviant and quirky as her mischievous heroes</b>, and didn't seem to mind if everyone knew it
- J. G. Ballard, Daily Telegraph
A Suspension of Mercy<b>, a masterpiece of noir fantasy</b>. With this novel, Highsmith revels in eliciting the<b> unsettling psychological forces</b> that lurk beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life. For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith
Time
Highsmith's novels are <b>peerlessly disturbing</b> . . . bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night
New Yorker
It's a curious and absorbing novel, almost <b>unique in its fantastic and ironic tone</b>
- Anthony Boucher, New York Times
<b>A literary hall of mirrors</b> in which reality and fiction are constantly reflected and, ultimately, confused
- Andrew Wilson,