Modern Classics: Patricia Highsmith

Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and the Making of Modern Psychological Suspense

As Raymond Chandler is to hardboiled detectives or John le Carré is to spy novels, Patricia Highsmith is the godmother of the modern psychological thriller genre. Like these masters, Highsmith elevated what could be dismissed as a purely-for-entertainment genre into a true literary form and in the process became an inspiration for countless writers who …