"These stories, once you get the hang of them, are very wicked, very funny and—this being Highsmith’s mission in life, as far as one can tell—very unsettl

BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'Very wicked, very funny . . . very unsettling' GUARDIAN 'Each story is more

Introduces a gallery of highly unusual characters in these seventeen tales of women who destroy their men and women who destroy themselves.

This poisonous little book contains four wicked stories of love gone wrong. Taken from Little Tales of Misogyny, Highsmith's satirical, cultish short-story coll

Short stories filled with “satire, mischief, and menace” by the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley (Harper’s Bazaar). These ten stories chronicle a world g