Anxiety and Evil in the Writings of Patricia Highsmith

Drawing on an impressive range of secondary material, including many elusive reviews, interviews and articles from the under-explored Highsmith Archive, Fiona Peters suggests that the usual generic distinctions -crime fiction, mystery, suspense - have been largely unhelpful in elucidating Patricia Highsmith''s novels. Peters analyzes a significant selection of Highsmith''s works, chosen with a vie...