A Dog's Ransom

A Dog's Ransom  
Author(s) Patricia Highsmith
Genre(s) psychological thriller
Publisher Knopf
Publication date 1972
ISBN 0394480694, 9780394480695

A Dog's Ransom (1972) is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith. [1]

Synopsis

One day, publishing house executive Ed Reynolds finds a disturbing ransom note in the Manhattan apartment he shares with his wife: "Dear sir: I have your dog, Lisa. She is well and happy... I gather she is important to you? We'll see." As the couple slowly realise the predicament they're in, it becomes painfully clear that an ambitious kidnapper really has hit them where it hurts...

Reception

Highsmith edges her readers toward the insane territory inhabited by her people... readers are sure to be left feeling by turns startled, oppressed, amused and queasy. - New York Times Book Review

No one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously satisfying. - Vogue

References

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The novels of Patricia Highsmith
Strangers on a Train (1950)  • The Price of Salt (as Claire Morgan) (1952)  • 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)  • 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 (1987)  • Ripley Under Water (1991)  • Small g: a Summer Idyll (1995)