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Patricia Highsmith

(1921 - 1995)

aka Clare Morgan

Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921 but moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided to become a writer at the age of sixteen. Her first novel Strangers on a Train, was made into a famous film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland in 1995. Her last novel Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later.

Genres: Mystery

Series

Ripley
   1. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955)
   2. Ripley Under Ground (1970)
   3. Ripley's Game (1974)
   4. The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980)
   5. Ripley Under Water (1991)

Novels

   Strangers On a Train (1950)
   The Price of Salt (1952) (as by Clare Morgan)
     aka Carol
   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)
   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 (1995)

Omnibus

Little Tales of Misogyny / Mermaids on the Golf Course (2008)
Women Crime Writers (2015) (with Charlotte Armstrong, Dolores Hitchens and Margaret Millar)

Collections

   Eleven (1970)
     aka The Snail Watcher and Other Stories
   Little Tales of Misogyny (1974)
   The Animal Lover's Book of Beastly Murder (1975)
   Slowly, Slowly in the Wind (1979)
   The Black House (1981)
   Mermaids on the Golf Course (1985)
   Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes (1987)
   Tales of Obsession (1994) (with Joan Hess, Evan Hunter, P D James, Cynthia Manson, Nancy Pickard, Ruth Rendell and Lawrence Treat)
   Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950 (1997) (with David Goodis, Chester Himes, Robert Polito, Jim Thompson and Charles Willeford)
   The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith (2001)
   Nothing That Meets the Eye (2002)
   The Highsmith Reader (2010)
   Under a Dark Angel's Eye (2021)

Non fiction

Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction (1966)

Anthologies containing stories by Patricia Highsmith

Short stories

	The Bravest Rat in Venice
	The Day of Reckoning
	Harry: A Ferret
	The Snail Watcher
	Woodrow Wilson's Neck-Tie
	The Terrapin (1962)
	The Quest For Blank Claveringi (1964)
	Please Don't Shoot the Trees (1976)
	The Pond (1976)
	Moby Dick II; or The Missile Whale (1987)
	The Mysterious Cemetery (1987)
	Nabuti: Warm Welcome to a UN Committee (1987)
	No End in Sight (1987)
	Operation Balsam; or Touch-Me-Not (1987)
	President Buck Jones Rallies and Waves the Flag (1987)
	Rent-a-Womb vs. The Mighty Right (1987)
	Sixtus VI, Pope of the Red Slipper (1987)
	Sweet Freedom! and a Picnic on the White House Lawn (1987)
	Trouble at the Jade Towers (1987)