by Patricia Highsmith · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408011828
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«Crímenes Bestiales» is a book of mystery and suspense stories by Patricia Highsmith, published by Planeta in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).
The book brings together mystery and suspense stories featuring animals that rebel against their cruel or negligent owners. Among the stories, notable ones include a cat living on a yacht in Acapulco who detests his owner's lover, a pig trained to find truffles whose master denies him the chance to taste them, and cockroaches longing for the splendour of a decaying hotel.
The volume belongs to the BestSellers collection of the Serie Negra (number 15).
For readers of short mystery and horror stories with animals as protagonists and situations of human cruelty.
Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories in a career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing was influenced by existentialist literature and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene.
