A Game for the Living by Patricia Highsmith. New York. 1958. Harper & Brothers. 269 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Polly Cameron.
DESCRIPTION - What happens when two men who are friends, share the love of a beautiful woman, and she is murdered? Theodore Wolfgang Schiebelhut, resident of Mexico, had been on a painting trip, and, returning to Mexico City with his canvases, stopped off briefly at a party. He left the party to visit his mistress, Lelia. Late as the hour was, he knew Lelia would not mind being disturbed and would be delighted to see him. But she did not answer his knock and her door was locked. He crawled through the transom and found the girl on her bed, murdered and mutilated. When the police came they questioned Theodore first, and then their attention turned to Ramon Otero, Theodore's friend, and Lelia's lover, too. Ramon had wanted to marry Lelia. Theodore had not. The closely knit, comfortable and sensitive community in which Theodore and Ramon moved was shattered by the tragedy and the suspicions. In A Game for the Living Patricia Highsmith has written a novel of vivid character portrayal and fascinating motivations - particularly those of a man whose philosophy of life is threatened at a time when he has lost the woman he loves, and perhaps his best friend. It is a compelling novel.
Born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1921, Patricia Highsmith spent much of her adult life in Switzerland and France. Educated at Barnard College, where she studied English, Latin, and Greek, she had her first novel, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, published in 1950 and saw it quickly made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock. Despite receiving little recognition in her native land during her lifetime, Highsmith, the author of more than twenty books, won the O. Henry Memorial Award, The Edgar Allan Poe Award, Le Grand Prix de Littérarure Policière, and the Award of the Crime Writers’ Association of Great Britain. She died in Switzerland in 1995, and her literary archives are maintained in Berne.
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