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Author: Patricia Highsmith
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Imprint: St Martin's Press
Edition: Revised and Updated ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 20.60cm
Weight: 0.159kg
ISBN: 9780312286668
ISBN 10: 031228666
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 08 September 2001
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General/trade
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
[This book offers] sensible, good-humored, and practical advice from a distinguished mystery writer. Much of what [Highsmith] says about novels can be applied to short stories. --Damon Knight [Highsmith] is no more a practitioner of the murder mystery genre than are Dostoevsky, Faulkner, and Camus. --Joan Smith, The Los Angeles Times For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith. --Time [This book offers] sensible, good-humored, and practical advice from a distinguished mystery writer. Much of what [Highsmith] says about novels can be applied to short stories. Damon Knight [Highsmith] is no more a practitioner of the murder mystery genre than are Dostoevsky, Faulkner, and Camus. Joan Smith, The Los Angeles Times For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith. Time [This book offers] sensible, good-humored, and practical advice from a distinguished mystery writer. Much of what [Highsmith] says about novels can be applied to short stories. Damon Knight [Highsmith] is no more a practitioner of the murder mystery genre than are Dostoevsky, Faulkner, and Camus. Joan Smith, The Los Angeles Times For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith. Time [This book offers] sensible, good-humored, and practical advice from a distinguished mystery writer. Much of what [Highsmith] says about novels can be applied to short stories. --Damon Knight [Highsmith] is no more a practitioner of the murder mystery genre than are Dostoevsky, Faulkner, and Camus. --Joan Smith, The Los Angeles Times For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith. -- Time
[This book offers] sensible, good-humored, and practical advice from a distinguished mystery writer. Much of what [Highsmith] says about novels can be applied to short stories. —Damon Knight <br> [Highsmith] is no more a practitioner of the murder mystery genre than are Dostoevsky, Faulkner, and Camus. —Joan Smith, The Los Angeles Times <br> For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith. — Time <br>
[This book offers] sensible, good-humored, and practical advice from a distinguished mystery writer. Much of what [Highsmith] says about novels can be applied to short stories. --Damon Knight<br><br> [Highsmith] is no more a practitioner of the murder mystery genre than are Dostoevsky, Faulkner, and Camus. --Joan Smith, The Los Angeles Times <br><br> For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith. -- Time <br>
[This book offers] sensible, good-humored, and practical advice from a distinguished mystery writer. Much of what [Highsmith] says about novels can be applied to short stories. --Damon Knight <br> [Highsmith] is no more a practitioner of the murder mystery genre than are Dostoevsky, Faulkner, and Camus. --Joan Smith, The Los Angeles Times <br> For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith. -- Time <br>
Author Information
The great mystery/suspense writer Patricia Highsmith published more than two dozen works of fiction, as well as numerous reviews and essays, and was awarded the French Grand Prix de Littérature Policière (1957) and the British Crime Writers Associations's Silver Dagger (1964).
