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With the savage humor of Evelyn Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Edgar Allan Poe, Patricia Highsmith brought a distinct twentieth-century acuteness to her prolific body of fiction. In her more than twenty novels, psychopaths lie in wait amid the milieu of the mundane,... Read Full Overview

With the savage humor of Evelyn Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Edgar Allan Poe, Patricia Highsmith brought a distinct twentieth-century acuteness to her prolific body of fiction. In her more than twenty novels, psychopaths lie in wait amid the milieu of the mundane, in... Read Full Overview

First printed in 1983 is Highsmith's work a about blind faith and the slippery notion of justice that lies beneath the peculiarly American veneer of righteousness. "People Who Knock on the Door" is being produced for BBC Television.