Notes From a Respectable Cockroach. A new Patricia Highsmith biography. A perfect confluence of murder, madness and 1940’s Greenwich Village. “Every physical location is also an emotional location,” Ms. Schenkar noted. She pointed across the street to a Federal mansion: “John Wilkes Booth supposedly plotted the assassination of Lincoln there.”

Notes From a Respectable Cockroach. A new Patricia Highsmith biography. A perfect confluence of murder, madness and 1940’s Greenwich Village.

“Every physical location is also an emotional location,” Ms. Schenkar noted.

She pointed across the street to a Federal mansion: “John Wilkes Booth supposedly plotted the assassination of Lincoln there.”

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