Just in time for the centennial celebration of groundbreaking noir fiction writer Patricia Highsmith comes a reissue of her propulsive, engrossing debut, An incredible study of psychological torture and how fine the membrane is between normality and the underlying darkness. All of Highsmiths strengths are there in her first novel [ A moody and disturbing excavation of guilty paranoia& Unfathomably great. One is held by an evil kind of suspense&a rarely perceptive study in criminal psychology.