Buffalo News (05/Feb/1995) - Patricia Highsmith, crime novelist, dies

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Patricia Highsmith, crime novelist, dies

Patricia Highsmith, an American crime writer whose dark, psychological tales of murder and intrigue thrilled readers worldwide, died Saturday. She was 74.

She died in Locarno's Carita Hospital, a hospital official announced. No cause of death was given.

Ms. Highsmith was perhaps best known for the character of Tom Ripley, a gentleman-murderer who was at the center of five of her novels.

She published 20 novels, including "Strangers on a Train," which Alfred Hitchcock made into a movie in 1951, and seven short-story collections.

She lived quietly in a small village in the southern Swiss state of Ticino.