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Highsmith

(ˈhaɪˌsmɪθ)
n
(Biography) Patricia. 1921–95, US author of crime fiction. Her novels include Strangers on a Train (1950) and Ripley's Game (1974)
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Writers discussed include Agatha Christie, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Gladys Mitchell, Josephine Tey, Frank Wilford, Gore Vidal, Beverly Nichols, Patricia Highsmith, and Joseph Hansen.
Toklas and Patricia Highsmith, Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, Josephine Baker, Billie Jean King and Maggi Hambling.
Adapting acclaimed suspense author Patricia Highsmith's 1954 novel "The Blunderer," director Andy Goddard and screenwriter Susan Boyd chart the doom that befalls two men whose spouses, in quick succession, turn up dead at the same out-of-the-way Northeast rest stop.
Based on the 1952 novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr Ripley), the art direction in this film is on point, with special kudos to the costume, make-up, set and cinematography teams.
Based on Patricia Highsmith's novel The Pr ice Of Salt, the movie's strength lies in its richly textured central characters, both of whom develop from souls floundering against their circumstances before discovering a sense of self.
Based on Patricia Highsmith's novel The Price of Salt, Carol engages the head but fails to trouble the heart.
But, more than that, they were all startlingly different from their contemporaries, cracking open the door that made possible the work of successors such as Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell and Gillian Flynn.
"Chicago Noir: The Classics" features classic noir tales by Harry Stephen Keeler, Sherwood Anderson, Max Allan Collins, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Fredric Brown, Patricia Highsmith, Barry Gifford, Stuart M.
Every woman writing literary thrillers gets compared to Patricia Highsmith once if she's lucky, but this is one of the few times it's felt to me like a hopeful comparison." AMY GENTRY
The Two Faces Of January is a slow-burning psychological thriller based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith.
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