Jean Valentine - The Knife

Published: Dec. 31, 2015, 6:49 p.m.

"My New Year\u2019s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle - may they never give me peace." -Patricia Highsmith, age 26, at 2:30am New Year\u2019s Eve 1947 in her journal.

Buy the Jean Valentine book, "Door in the Mountain..." here: http://www.upne.com/0819567124.html

The Patricia Highsmith I recommend the most is here: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-Animal-Lovers-Book-of-Beastly-Murder/