Over five decades, Patricia Highsmith wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories. Of those singular works, seven stand out in the popular imagination: the five Ripley-centered novels, Strangers on a Train (published in 1950 and adapted by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951 into a noir classic co-starring Farley Granger and Robert Walker), and The Price of Salt (aka Carol), written under a pseudonym and published in 1952. Despite other work and additional successes, longtime Highsmith fans and, thus, publishers, hoped Ripley would return for a sixth, final novel. She never did. Highsmith passed away in 1995 after a lengthy battle with cancer and other chronic ailments. While Highsmith’s history as a racist, antisemite, and all-around misanthrope has been well documented, she remains among the...
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