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1. The Price of Salt

   Patricia Highsmith

   Now recognized as a masterwork, the scandalous novel that anticipated Nabokov's Lolita.More

2. Quiet as a Nun: A Jemima Shore Mystery

   Antonia Fraser

   "A judicious mixture of puzzle, excitement, and terror."—P.D. JamesMore

3. A Red Death: A Novel

   Walter Mosley

   It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow "Easy Rawlins."More

4. Ripley Under Ground

   Patricia Highsmith

   "Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing."—Frank RichMore

5. Ripley Under Water

   Patricia Highsmith

   "Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing."—Frank RichMore

6. Ripley's Game

   Patricia Highsmith

   With its sinister humor and genius plotting, Ripley's Game is an enduring portrait of a compulsive, sociopathic American antihero.More

7. Roses, Roses

   Bill James

   Volume(s): Book 10

   "Bill James writes a superior brand of police procedural about a steely English detective named Colin Harpur, but he has never written a story as cold, dark and dangerously funny as Roses, Roses."—Marilyn Stasio —New York Times Book ReviewMore

8. The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith

   Patricia Highsmith, Graham Greene

   The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith presents five of Highsmith's classic short story collections in a single masterful volume. Compelling, twisted, and fiercely intelligent, this landmark collection showcases Highsmith's mastery of the short story form.More

9. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.

   Nicholas Meyer

   Back in print to tie-in with The Canary Trainer, this "rediscovered" Sherlock Holmes adventure recounts the unique collaboration of Holmes and Sigmund Freud in the solution of a mystery on which the lives of millions may depend.More

10. Slowly, Slowly in the Wind

    Patricia Highsmith

    "Highsmith's writing is wicked . . . it puts a spell on you, after which you feel altered, even tainted."—Entertainment Weekly More

11. Small g: A Summer Idyll

    Patricia Highsmith

    "Like Ripley, [Highsmith's characters] burn in a reader's memory."—Susan Salters Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewMore

12. Stormy Weather: A Charlotte Justice Novel

    Paula L. Woods

    Following the much-acclaimed Inner City Blues, a journey through Los Angeles's mix of politics and police corruption, secrets and lies.More

13. Strangers on a Train

    Patricia Highsmith

    A major new reissue of the work of a classic noir novelist.More

14. The Sultan's Seal: A Novel

    Jenny White

    "A wonderful read…. An historical novel of the highest quality."—Iain PearsMore

15. A Suspension of Mercy

    Patricia Highsmith

    A major new reissue of the work of a classic noir novelist.More