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Short Works: Patricia Highsmith Stories: The Terrors Of Basket-Weaving

The Terrors Of Basket-Weaving

Patricia Highsmith Stories

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The Terrors Of Basket-Weaving by Patricia Highsmith. Diane finds a basket on the beach.

Diane is disturbed by the broken Moses basket she finds on the beach. Read by Greta Scacchi.

While at her holiday cottage, Diane finds a broken Moses basket on the beach. She decides to repair it, but how did it come so easily?

Read by Greta Scacchi.

Five tales by the celebrated American crime and psychological novelist and short story writer, Patricia Highsmith.

Patricia Highsmith was born in Texas in 1921-1995. She wrote eight collections of short stories and 22 novels, among them the five ‘Ripley’ novels for which she is perhaps best known. Her first, Strangers On A Train, was the basis for the eponymous Hitchcock film of 1951. She died in Switzerland in 1995.

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Short Works: Patricia Highsmith Stories

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A selection of short stories by Patricia Highsmith

A selection of short stories by the celebrated American crime and psychological novelist and short story writer, Patricia Highsmith.

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