Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction by Patricia Highsmith. 1972 The Writer Inc., second edition, 149 pages. Highsmith was one of the greatest crime writers of all time, and also published under a pseudonym the lesbian novel Price of Salt. Here Highsmith includes advice on plotting, devices, and suspense in general in her highly conversational tone.

Condition: Jacket in good condition with extensive foxing, book in good condition with foxing

"Another cause of this lack of ideas is the wrong kind of people around a writer, or sometimes people of any sort."