Patricia Highsmith: Found in the Street (USA 2016)

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Elsie Tyler turns heads wherever she goes. After leaving her hometown upstate for Greenwich Village, the charming young waitress soon finds herself surrounded by admirers, including Jack and Natalia Sutherland, a married couple who invite Elsie into their bohemian inner circle and help her launch a career as a model. Meanwhile, Ralph Linderman, a middle-aged security guard with a dog named God, is nursing his own obsession with Elsie. He sets out to protect her from the "bad company" she attracts, but his uninvited affections are overbearing, possibly even pathological. When Ralph finds Jack's wallet on a morning stroll through the Village, and returns it, he is entirely unprepared for the complex maze of sexual obsession and disturbing psychological intrigue he is about to be drawn into.

Originally published in 1986, Found in the Street is classic Highsmith -- an engrossing, unsettling thriller that explores the bleakest alleyways of human desire, and a kaleidoscopic portrait of 1980s New York City.

Patricia Highsmith: Found in the Street. Grove Press, ISBN: 9780802125293 (July, 2016), 374 p., $15.00.

Patricia Highsmith: Found in the Street (UK 2016)

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On a stroll through Greenwich Village, security guard Ralph Linderman finds a wallet on the sidewalk. It belongs to Jack Sutherland, a wealthy aspiring artist, and it is his misfortune to have it returned to him - with all $263 and credit cards untouched. Because now Ralph knows where Jack lives.

Elsie Tyler is a beautiful young waitress - an innocent in New York - and Ralph feels he must protect her from 'bad company'. When he sees Elsie leaving Jack's apartment, he is not pleased. Not pleased at all. He is entirely unprepared for the complex maze of sexual obsession and disturbing psychological intrigue he is about to be drawn into.

By the author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Found in the Street is an unsettling thriller that explores the bleakest alleyways of human desire.

Patricia Highsmith: Found in the Street. Virago, ISBN: 9780349004884 (January, 2016), 338 p., £8.99.

Patricia Highsmith: Found in the Street (USA 1987)

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Patricia Highsmith defies categorization. American by birth but long an exile, she has written twenty-five books and became a best-seller throughout Europe. Yet since her first novel, Strangers on a Train, published in 1950 and the basis for Hitchcock's famous film, she has been regarded more as a mystery writer than as someone deserving of a place (close to Poe or Hammett) in her native literary tradition. Her books, as Brigid Brophy has written, "are thrillers chiefly in the sense that every good novel is."

Set in Greenwich Village, Found in the Street is a powerful novel of sexual obsession and the complexity of desire. Elsie Taylor is one of the youthful thousands who drift into New York City every year looking for good times and opportunities. She has vitality, innocence, ambition, and a beauty that attracts men and women alike.

But to Ralph Linderman -- a failed inventor who walks the streets at dawn with a dog named God -- she seems oblivious to, and endangered by, the corruption he sees everywhere around him.

Waitressing as she dreams of greater things, Elsie is soon taken up by an older, sophisticated circle won over by her unstudied charms. Jack Sutherland, an illustrator, comes to adore her with an artists eye, but it is his wife, Natalia, who is most smitten. But as Elsie's future grows ever more promising and complicated, Ralph becomes even more agitated and persistent. And in the end, no one's emotions are as simple as they might seem, as everyone must reconsider what they loved -- or loathed -- about this remarkable young woman.

Patricia Highsmith: Found in the Street. Atlantic Monthly Press, ISBN: 0871132087 (October, 1987), 276 p., $16.95.

Patricia Highsmith: Found in the Street (UK 1987)

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ELSIE TYLER'S BEAUTY IS DANGEROUS - BUT ONLY TO HERSELF
Young, charismatic, full of charm and energy, Elsie Tyler thinks that living is fun. Effortlessly attractive to men and women alike, Elsie finds love simple as well. She is too innocent to understand the dark obsessions lurking in the human heart. Too free to appreciate the nature of corruption. Too young to see that nothing in this life is easy - with the exception, that is, of death.

Found in the Street is Patricia Highsmith's chilling new psychological thriller - a novel that will destroy some of your assumptions about human nature and contemporary life.

Patricia Highsmith: Found in the Street. Penguin, ISBN: 0140097783 (April, 1987), 276 p., £2.95.

Patricia Highsmith: Found in the Street (UK 1986)

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Found in the Street is a powerful novel of sexual obsession set in New York's Greenwich Village -- a novel about the dark side of desire and the violent emotions that can sometimes lead to violent death.

Elsie Tyler is fresh, childlike, vibrantly pretty -- one of thousands of young people who drift to the city every year looking for good times and opportunities. She has youth, vitality, ambition, and a sexual magic that works fatally on both men and women. Lonely oddball Ralph Linderman, walking the dawn streets with a dog called God, sets out on a fanatic's crusade to save her from corruption. He haunts the coffee shop on Seventh Avenue where she works and spies on her night life with her friends.

Illustrator Jack Sutherland, to whom Elsie turns for help, comes to adore her with an artist's eye, but it is his wife Natalia -- free-spirited, sexy, fiercely independent - who is most fascinated by the girl. Taken up by Natalia and her smart Village friends, Elsie begins to make it as a fashion model, but she has stirred up a dangerous kind of madness, and made bitter enemies of those less gifted in love.

A stunning new novel of psychological suspense from one of the world's leading storytellers of the macabre. Found in the Street is as diverting in its narrative detail, and as chilling in its impact, as anything Patricia Highsmith has written.

Patricia Highsmith: Found in the Street. Heinemann, ISBN: 043433524X (April, 1986), 276 p., £9.95.