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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (Mar 1975)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140039449
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140039443
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 793,489 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Discontent in Manhattan, 21 Oct 2008
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This review is from: A Dog's Ransom (Hardcover)
A Dog's Ransom is a fine little thriller that is deceptive in more ways than one. Starting out initially indeed as a ransom case perpetrated on a well-off middle-aged couple by a discontented and unbalanced Polish immigrant who has been writing them anonymous hate letters, the novel soon develops into something else entirely when a young enthusiastic and impressionable police officer volunteers to look into the case.

More than just the unexpected turns that the case follows, the novel is a superb and realistic character study of everyday characters from several levels of Manhattan society and how they interact, throwing up interesting conflicts between them and revealing underlying bitterness in their attitudes towards migrants, crime and the police. Rather than there being the hard edge of hatred and bitterness that might have been expected from the outset, Highsmith takes an unexpected angle and rather reveals a core of kindness and trust in people that is gradually eroded and twisted as events take unexpected turns.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Synopsis, 26 Sep 2007
This review is from: A Dog's Ransom (Hardcover)
The New York police, broad-hipped with night sticks, handcuffs and guns: how seriously would they treat the kidnapping of a dog?...Lisa a French poodle belonging to Ed and Greta Reynolds, disappears on her evening walk. And the Reynolds receive four amateur poison-pen letters. What sort of person threatens them? And how far into the grime of Manhattan's minor underworld will he lead the naive but well-meaning patrolman Clarence Duhamell?
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