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The bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train'For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith' TIME'They compel attention and they add significantly to her already formidable presence' WASHINGTON POST'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' THE TIMESThe stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course are among Patricia Highsmith's most mature, psychologically penetrating works. Published in the latter part of her career, these stories reveal Highsmith's mastery of the short story form. Moving between locales as various as France, Mexico, Zurich and New York, Highsmith transforms the mundane features of everyday life into an eerie backdrop for her penetrating stories of violence, secrecy, and madness.In The Stuff of Madness, Christopher Waggoner, increasingly dismayed by his wife's habit of preserving dead pets in their garden, enacts a devious revenge by adding a bizarre new exhibit to their collection; in the title story, an eminent economist's brush with death endows his once-familiar desires with tragic consequences; and in A Shot from Nowhere, a young painter who witnesses a gruesome death on a vac

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Author

Patricia Highsmith

Publisher

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393345650

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.56 / 5 (110 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14