by Patricia Highsmith · Biblioteca El Mundo. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788481300055
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«La coartada perfecta» is the collection of short stories by Patricia Highsmith, published by Biblioteca El Mundo in paperback (95 pages, in Spanish).
Patricia Highsmith brings to these five stories her obsession with the perfect crime: ordinary people cross the line into paranoia and manipulation, and tension builds to an unexpected denouement; among them are «No puedes confiar en nadie» and «Variaciones sobre el juego».
The work is part of the Grandes Autores. Biblioteca de Literatura Universal collection, as volume 6, and the stories are translated into Spanish by Domingo Santos.
For readers of psychological suspense and crime fiction interested in Patricia Highsmith's short stories.
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.
