Patricia Highsmith

She's a furious woman.

Even Strangers on a Train, my first book, was classified as a Harper novel of suspense.

It sounded rather intriguing.

Back in those days, when I first saw it on the cover, it was news to me.

And then as the years went on, I found that...

the publishers had created a line of books, not only mine, called Suspense fine, but it does categorize you and so that you cannot jump from that exactly to a book like Carol for instance or much later Edith's Diary which is a novel about an American woman whose life goes slowly she's a married woman with one son her life goes slowly downhill, there's no

To call it lacking in suspense is ridiculous because I always thought suspense is integral in every story.

Ripley most definitely envies the lifestyle of Dickie Greenleaf and wants to

imitated.

Ripley comes over in the first book, comes over to Europe as a very... it's the first time he's been to Europe and he's very impressed by what he sees as elegance or the right way of doing things or very nice clothes or good leather suitcases and the... a little bit of... enough money to enjoy leisure This impresses him very much

Okay, one needn't call it greed, but it is certainly envy.