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In A Dog's Ransom, one of Patricia Highsmith's most acclaimed and suspenseful novels, a high-minded criminal hits a Manhattan couple where it hurts most when he kidnaps their beloved black miniature poodle, Lisa, from Riverside Park. Ed Reynolds, a forty-two-year-old editor at a prestigious publishing house, returns home one night to find a note: 'Dear Sir: I have your dog Lisa. She is well and happy . . . I gather she is important to you? We'll see.' And so the nightmare begins for the Reynolds couple in this harrowing portrait of mid-century urban life shattered by a single bizarre event. Reminiscent of the best social dramas, A Dog's Ransom captures the fragility of middle-class life in this riveting, scathing tale.
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A dog's ransom, Patricia Highsmith
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2016
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- Titel
- A dog's ransom
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Patricia Highsmith
- Verlag
- Virago
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2016
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0349004897
- ISBN13
- 9780349004891
- Reihe
- Kuratierte Auswahl
- Virago Modern Classics
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Krimi & Thriller, Krimi, Spannung, Amerikanische Literatur, Verfilmt, Noir
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1955
- Originaltitel
- A Dog's Ransom
- Bewertung
- 3,5 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- In A Dog's Ransom, one of Patricia Highsmith's most acclaimed and suspenseful novels, a high-minded criminal hits a Manhattan couple where it hurts most when he kidnaps their beloved black miniature poodle, Lisa, from Riverside Park. Ed Reynolds, a forty-two-year-old editor at a prestigious publishing house, returns home one night to find a note: 'Dear Sir: I have your dog Lisa. She is well and happy . . . I gather she is important to you? We'll see.' And so the nightmare begins for the Reynolds couple in this harrowing portrait of mid-century urban life shattered by a single bizarre event. Reminiscent of the best social dramas, A Dog's Ransom captures the fragility of middle-class life in this riveting, scathing tale.