Beautiful Shadow (107 page)

32
PH, Cahier 29, 1/18/68, SLA.

33
PH, Letter to Alain Oulman, 28 August 1974, CLA.

34
PH, Letter to Alain Oulman, 20 July 1968, CLA.

35
Julian Symons, ‘Patricia Highsmith: Criminals in Society’,
London Magazine
, June 1969.

36
Ibid.

37
Janice Elliott,
New Statesman
, 24 January 1969.

38
Terrence Rafferty, ‘Fear and Trembling’,
The New Yorker
, 4 January 1988.

39
PH, Cahier 29, 1/28/67, SLA.

40
PH, Cahier 29, 2/3/68, SLA.

41
PH, Cahier 29, 3/11/68, SLA.

42
PH, Cahier 29, 11/1/67, SLA .

43
PH, Diary 15, 14 December 1967, SLA.

44
PH, Diary 15, 2 January 1968, SLA.

45
PH, Cahier 30, 8/7/68, SLA.

46
PH, Letter to Barbara Ker-Seymer, 17 February 1968, SLA.

47
PH, Letter to Kate Kingsley Skattebol, 14 March 1968, SLA.

48
Interview with Madeleine Harmsworth, 23 August 2000.

49
PH, Diary 15, 17 March 1968, SLA.

50
Ibid.

51
PH, Letter to Barbara Ker-Seymer, 17 May 1968, SLA.

52
PH, Letter to Alex Szogyi, 8 January 1969, SLA.

53
PH, Letter to Barbara Ker-Seymer, 17 May 1968, SLA.

54
Tariq Ali, Susan Watkins,
1968: Marching in the Streets
, Bloomsbury, London, 1998, p. 86.

55
PH, Cahier 29, 6/5/68, SLA.

56
PH, Diary 15, 15 June 1968, SLA.

57
PH, Letter to Arthur Koestler, 2 June 1968, KA, MS 2386/1.

58
Auriol Stevens, ‘Private Highsmith’,
Guardian
, 29 January 1969.

59
PH, Cahier 29, 7/17/68, SLA.

60
Interview with Madeleine Harmsworth.

61
PH, Letter to Barbara Ker-Seymer, 20 July 1968, SLA.

62
Interview with Heather Chasen, 6 October 1999.

63
Interview with Madeleine Harmsworth.

64
PH, Letter to Alex Szogyi, 1 February 1969, SLA.

65
Ibid.

66
Interview with Madeleine Harmsworth.

23 The false, the fake and the counterfeit 1968–1969

1
PH, Cahier 28, 7/22/65, SLA.

2
PH, Cahier 29, 2/23/66, SLA.

3
PH, Cahier 30, 10/3/68, SLA.

4
PH, Cahier 30, 11/20/68, SLA.

5
PH, Cahier 30, 11/5/68, SLA.

6
PH, Cahier 30, 10/11/68, SLA.

7
PH, Letter to Alex Szogyi, 26 December 1968, SLA.

8
PH, Letter to Barbara Ker-Seymer, 29-30 November 1968, SLA.

9
PH, Cahier 30, 11/15/68, SLA.

10
PH, ‘The Hand’,
Little Tales of Misogyny
, Heinemann, London, 1977, p. 3; first published as
Kleine Geschichten für Weiberfeinde
, Diogenes Verlag, Zurich, 1975.

11
PH, Letter to Barbara Ker-Seymer, 18 December 1968, SLA.

12
PH, Letter to Barbara Ker-Seymer, 4 January 1969, SLA.

13
Auriol Stevens, ‘Private Highsmith’,
Guardian
, 29 January 1969.

14
PH, Letter to Barbara Ker-Seymer, 10 February 1969, SLA.

15
Cynthia Koestler, 21 January 1969, Diary December 1968 – December 1969, KA.

16
Ibid.

17
PH, ‘Togetherness’, Cahier 30, 1/6/69, SLA.

18
PH, Letter to Alex Szogyi, 25 June 1969, SLA.

19
Cynthia Koestler, 20 July 1969, Diary December 1968 – December 1969, KA.

20
Ibid.

21
PH, Diary 16, 20 August 1969, SLA.

22
PH, Dedication,
Ripley Under Ground
, Heinemann, London, 1971.

23
Interview with Hester Green, 16 November 2000.

24
PH,
Ripley Under Ground
, p. 5.

25
Chris Matthew, ‘Writing the wrong-doers’,
Radio Times
, 2 December 1972.

26
PH,
Ripley Under Ground
, p. 183.

27
‘The Talented Miss Highsmith’,
Times Literary Supplement
, 24 September 1971.

28
PH,
Ripley Under Ground
, p. 163.

29
Michiko Kakutani, ‘The Kinship of Macabre and Banal’,
New York Times
, 19 November 1999.

30
PH,
Ripley Under Ground
, p. 10.

31
Ibid., p. 265.

32
Ibid., p. 269.

33
Ibid., p. 276.

34
Ibid., p. 298.

35
The Times
, 21 January 1971.

36
Pooter,
The Times
, 25 January 1969.

37
Ibid.

38
PH,
Ripley Under Ground
, p. 65.

39
Ibid., p. 210.

40
Ibid., p. 169.

41
Ibid., p. 280.

42
Oscar Wilde, quoted in Richard Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1987, p. 529.

43
Wilde,
The Picture of Dorian Gray
, Penguin Books, London, 1949, p. 164.

44
Ibid., p. 201.

45
PH,
Ripley Under Ground
, p. 69.

46
Wilde,
The Picture of Dorian Gray
, p. 92.

47
Bettina Berch, ‘A Talk With Patricia Highsmith’, 15 June 1984, unpublished interview, SLA.

48
Wilde,
The Picture of Dorian Gray
, p. 164.

49
Wilde, ‘Pen, Pencil and Poison’,
Fortnightly Review
, January 1889,
Intentions
, James Osgood, London, 1891, p. 65.

50
Wilde, ‘Lecture on Thomas Chatterton’, quoted in Ellmann,
Oscar Wilde
, p. 269.

51
Wilde, ‘The Decay of Lying’,
Nineteenth Century
, January 1889,
Intentions
, p. 54.

52
PH,
Ripley Under Ground
, p. 148.

24 An equal opportunity offender 1969–1970

1
Tom Paulin, ‘Mortem Virumque Cano’,
New Statesman
, 25 November 1977.

2
Ibid.

3
PH, Letter to Kate Kingsley Skattebol, 20 March 1969, SLA.

4
Kathleen Gregory Klein,
And Then There Were Nine...More Women of Mystery
, ed. Jane S. Bakerman, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, Bowling Green, Ohio, 1985, p. 174.

5
Philippa Burton, ‘Patricia Highsmith: Male Perspective and Little Tales of Misogyny’,
Quarto
11, 1999, adapted from a speech given at the Research School for Literature, University of Leiden, the Netherlands, 15 December 1998.

6
Interview with Barbara Roett, 5 May 1999.

7
Interview with Heather Chasen, 6 October 1999.

8
PH, Letter to Ronald Blythe, 26 November 1966, RB.

9
Bettina Berch, ‘A Talk with Patricia Highsmith’, 15 June 1984, unpublished interview, SLA.

10
Ibid.

11
Ibid.

12
Interview with Michael Kerr, 10 April 2002.

13
PH, Cahier 6, 2/27/42, SLA.

14
PH, Cahier 8, 11/17/42, SLA.