The Crime Writer
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I’d like to acknowledge the following books and sources:
The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar, St Martin’s Press, 2009
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson, Bloomsbury, 2003
Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s by Marijane Meaker, Cleis Press, 2003
The Mad Sculptor by Harold Schecter, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014
‘Love is a kind of madness’ on page 1: These were Highsmith’s words to Melvyn Bragg in a South Bank Show interview in 1982.
‘The low, flat, compellingly psychotic murmur’ on page 41: This brilliant description of Highsmith’s voice in her fictions is the phrase of Joan Schenkar.
Extracts from Ronald Blythe’s Akenfield appear on pages 51, 78, 106, 114 and 174. Published by Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1969. Copyright © Ronald Blythe, 1969. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
Extracts from Ronald Blythe’s A Treasonable Growth appear on pages 155, 224 and 226. Published by MacGibbon & Kee, 1960. Copyright © Ronald Blythe, 1960. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
Extracts from Ronald Blythe’s The Time by the Sea: Aldeburgh 1955 – 58 appear on pages 83 and 198. Published by Faber and Faber Ltd, 2013. Copyright © Ronald Blythe, 2013. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
Ronnie’s comments on pages 52 and 53 about ‘the bookshelf cull’ and his reference to The Murder of My Aunt by Richard Hull are taken from an essay of that name in The Bookman’s Tale. Published by Canterbury Press, 2009. Copyright © Ronald Blythe. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
Extract on page 157 from Lightly Bound by Stevie Smith, from The Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith. Published by Faber and Faber Ltd, 2015. Copyright © Stevie Smith, 1944. Reprinted by kind permission of the publisher.
Table of Contents
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Title Page
Imprint Page
Dedication
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Acknowledgements