Beautiful Shadow (116 page)

     At Bloomsbury I would like to thank Liz Calder, who commissioned the book and who remained enthusiastic from the outset, as well as my copy-editor Victoria Millar, assistant editor Katherine Greenwood and rights director Ruth Logan. My agent Clare Alexander at Gillon Aitken not only helped get the project off the ground, but she continued to act as a constant source of support and friendship. I must also thank Fanny Blake and Deborah Singmaster for the important roles they played in the gestation of this book.

     I would like to express my gratitude and love to those who have had to share me with the shadow of Patricia Highsmith over the last few years. Thank you to my family, close friends, everyone at Alpeneggstrasse, 10, Berne and Marcus Field.

     This book is dedicated to Kate Kingsley Skattebol and the late Charles Latimer, friends Highsmith entrusted with the job of ‘steering off the wrong biographers’ after her death. I hope I haven’t disappointed.

A Note on the Author

Andrew Wilson
is a journalist who has written for most of Britain’s national newspapers, including the
Observer
, the
Daily Telegraph
, the
Guardian
, the
Independent on Sunday
and the
Daily Mail
. He is the author of
Harold Robbins: The Man Who Invented Sex
and
The Lying Tongue
(a novel). He is currently writing a book about the survivors of the Titanic. Wilson lives in London and Spain.

By Patricia Highsmith

Novels

Strangers on a Train
1950

The Price of Salt
(writing as Claire Morgan) 1952

(republished under her own name as
Carol
in 1990)

The Blunderer
1954

The Talented Mr Ripley
1955

Deep Water
1957

A Game for the Living
1958

This Sweet Sickness
1960

The Cry of the Owl
1962

The Two Faces of January
1964

The Glass Cell
1964

A Suspension of Mercy
1965

(
The Story-Teller
in the US)

Those Who Walk Away
1967

The Tremor of Forgery
1969

Ripley Under Ground
1970

A Dog’s Ransom
1972

Ripley’s Game
1974

Edith’s Diary
1977

The Boy who Followed Ripley
1980

People who Knock on the Door
1983

Found in the Street
1986

Ripley Under Water
1991

Small g: a Summer Idyll
1995

Short-story collections

Eleven
1970

(
The Snail-Watcher and Other Stories
in the US)

The Animal-Lover’s Book of Beastly Murder
1975

Little Tales of Misogyny
1975

Slowly, Slowly in the Wind
1979

The Black House
1981

Mermaids on the Golf Course
1985

Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes
1987

The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
2001

Nothing That Meets the Eye:
2002

The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith

Non-fiction

Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
1966

For children (with Doris Sanders)

Miranda the Panda is on the Veranda
1958