Summary: Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1951

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Highsmith, Patricia

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1993

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Highsmith, Patricia

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penzler Books 1986

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Highsmith, Patricia

Contents: Something the cat dragged in -- Not one of us -- The terrors of basket-weaving -- Under a dark angel's eye -- I despise your life -- The dream of the Emma C -- Old folks at home -- When in Rome -- Blow it -- The kite -- The black house.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1988

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Highsmith, Patricia

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2004

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Highsmith, Patricia

Summary: The nightmare is only beginning for a wealthy Manhattan couple, the Reynolds, when they receive a note saying that their beloved poodle, Lisa, is being held for ransom.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Co. 2002

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Highsmith, Patricia

Contents: The man who wrote books in his head -- The network -- The pond -- Something you have to live with -- Slowly, slowly in the wind -- Those awful dawns -- Woodrow Wilson's necktie -- One for the islands -- A curious suicide -- The baby spoon -- Broken glass -- Please don't shoot the trees.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2004

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Highsmith, Patricia

Summary: Two women die under similar circumstances--Melchior Kimmel killed his wife, Walter Stackhouse did not kill his. Lieutenant Corby, investigating the Stackhouse case, links it with the unsolved Kimmel murder. Then begins a nightmare for the two suspected men. Corby's wish to get at the truth becomes perverted by his ambition into an almost insane desire to extract confessions. Soon all three are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2001

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Highsmith, Patricia

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2001

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Modiano, Patrick

Summary: Born at the close of World War II, 2014 Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano was a young man in his twenties when he burst onto the Parisian literary scene with these three brilliant, angry novels about the wartime Occupation of Paris. The epigraph to his first novel, among the first to seriously question Nazi collaboration in France, reads: "In June 1942 a German officer goes up to a young man...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015

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Summary: A unique look at the life of celebrated American author Patricia Highsmith based on her diaries and notebooks, and the intimate reflections of her lovers, friends and family. Focusing on Highsmith₂s quest for love and her troubled identity, the film sheds new light on her life and writing. Most of Highsmith₂s novels were adapted for the big screen; the best known of these are Strangers on a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Summary: Tom Ripley has been sent to Italy by the father of one Philippe Greenleaf with the objective of bringing Greenleaf back into the family fold in the United States. Ripley, an accomplished forger, takes his job half-seriously until he falls in love with the same woman Greenleaf is in love with, Marge.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002

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Summary: Sleek thriller set in Greece and Istanbul in 1962. Intrigue begins at the Parthenon when wealthy American tourists Chester MacFarland and his young wife Collete meet American ex-pat Rydal, a scammer working as a tour guide. The two befriend him, but a murder at the couple's hotel puts all three on the run together and creates a precarious bond between them as the trio's allegiance is put to the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Summary: "In harm's way": An epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, details the devastating sneak attack on the Naval base as well as the explosive behind-the-scenes stories, and the counter-offensive. (167 min.).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006

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Summary: The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: In 1928, a 10-year-old boy goes to live with his eccentric, sophisticated aunt, a lady who throws a party for any occasion or non-occasion that comes to mind.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002

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