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Patricia Highsmith
Ripley wanted out. Wanted money, success - the good life. Was willing to kill for it… … . . He is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors…
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You’re always good on ideas, Tom… An American art collector is claiming that the expensive masterpiece he bought is a fake. He wants to meet with the artist - but…
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‘Some books change lives. This is one of them’ Val McDermid A haunting story of obsessive love which scandalized the world when first published
We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! The psychologists would call it folie a deux… Strangers on a Train was Patricia Highsmith’s first novel…
Professor Richard Bradford (University of Ulster, UK)
A vibrant portrait of the acclaimed author Patricia Highsmith, nominated for the H.R.F. Keating Award.
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Someone else should do the dirty work for them - yes, someone with no criminal record could earn a very generous fee for doing a couple of simple murders. Ripley’s…
one of her finest novels’ Guardian If everybody in the world didn’t keep watching to see what everybody else did, we’d all go berserk. Jenny believes that sighting an owl…
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Originally published: New York: Howard-McCann, 1952, under the pseudonym Claire Morgan.
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Russell Harrison
Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.
Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of…
This sleek and modern Netflix tie-in edition marks the return of Highsmith's classic story to our screens, cementing The Talented Mr Ripley's iconic position as a tale that has triggered…
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Ripley wanted out. Wanted money, success - the good life. Was willing to kill for it…
He is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors when a chance…
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First published pseudonymously in 1952 as The Price of Salt, Carol is a hauntingly atmospheric love story set against the backdrop of fifties’ New York.
The Talented Mr Ripley is one of the most influential, groundbreaking crime novels ever written. To mark the novel’s 60th anniversary, we are adding it to the VMC Designer Hardback…
The classic thriller behind the Hitchcock film, and Highsmith’s first novel - soon to be remade by David Fincher, director of Gone Girl, with a screenplay by Gillian Flynn.
Their eyes met at the same instant, Therese glancing up from a box she was opening, and the woman just turning her head so she looked directly at Therese. She…
Who is Mr. Ripley? In this volume, we bring together five novels where he is the main protagonist, such as Ripley’s Mask, where he marries a wealthy heiress and he…
The honeymoon is over, and the bride is dead. The grieving husband convinces the police in Rome of his innocence, but has no such luck with his father-in-law, who shoots…
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful.
A beautiful, hardback edition of the iconic crime classic, now a MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES.
Tom Ripley wants money, success, and the good life…
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Nancy Tufano
Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) kept a literary journal documenting her aesthetic and political perspectives for more than half of the twentieth century. As an active intellectual critic of American culture, Highsmith…
Jon Hammer,Karen McBurnie
In The World Of Patricia Highsmith we detail 54 locations associated with the author and her work, from long-gone lesbian boites in Manhattan and her last home in the Swiss…
This book is the first full-length study to focus on the various film adaptations of Patricia Highsmith’s novels, which have been a popular source for adaptation since Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers…
A collection in which unsuspecting victims are devoured by their own obsessions: a man becomes devoted to his pet snails; a young nanny turns arsonist in a bid to become…
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith presents five of Highsmith’s classic short story collections in a single masterful volume. Compelling, twisted, and fiercely intelligent, this landmark collection showcases Highsmith’s mastery…
Lawrence Osborne
The tense, atmospheric novel from the critically acclaimed, cult favourite Lawrence Osborne
A veteran British journalist living in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protestor amidst the pro-democracy…
Grace Ellis
Flung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel The Price of Salt and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran comics creators…
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Andrew Wilson
A biography of Patricia Highsmith, celebrated author of The Talented Mr Ripley and controversial lesbian novel Carol .
A biography of the celebrated author of classics such as Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley .
Flung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran comics creators…
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Patricia Highsmith’s novels are peerlessly disturbing … bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night. -The New Yorker
The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of, featuring two groundbreaking novels and a trove of penetrating short stories. This firmly establishes Highsmiths centrality to American culture.
Highsmith is no more a practitioner of the murder mystery genre…than are Doestoevsky, Faulkner and Camus. -Joan Smith, Los Angeles Times
A great American writer…Highsmith’s writing is wicked…it puts a spell on you. -Entertainment Weekly
Ramon and Theodore, friends and both lovers of Lelia, become prime suspects when she is found murdered and must find the real killer in order to prove their innocence.
Set in Greenwich Village, Found in the Street is a powerful novel of sexual obsession and the complexity of desire. Elsie Taylor drifts into New York City looking for good…
Jonathan is an honest man who has a gentle life with his wife and son. Why does Tom Ripley ask him to kill two mobsters? Jonathan has nothing to lose…
To escape the terrible realities of an alcoholic son, a departed husband, a bedridden uncle, and a dreary parttime job, Edith records the activities of a happy family in her…
The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with this work that reveals the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life.
Highsmith’s writing is wicked … it puts a spell on you, after which you feel altered, even tainted. -Entertainment Weekly
Howard Ingham, a New Yorker, has come to Tunisia to work on a film. However, when his friend John Castlewood, the film’s producer, fails to appear, Howard starts work on…
Highsmith’s novels are peerlessly disturbing…bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night. -The New Yorker
Grisly and atmospheric…[these] stories feature small worlds of animal amorality in which the sweet taste of revenge leaves no aftertaste of guilt. -Publishers Weekly
Patricia Highsmith’s classic novel of psychological suspense now a major film starring Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst
Ralph returns a strangers wallet that he found during a morning stroll through Greenwich Village, entirely unprepared for the complex maze of disturbing psychological intrigue he is about to be…
Long out of print, this Highsmith classic resurfaces with a vengeance.
From a writer dubbed one of the finest crime novelists by the New York Times, a sinister story of madness, dread, and murder, set in 1950s suburban America
Mr. Greenleaf, an American millionaire, asks Tom Ripley to convince his son Dickie -who is living in Italy like a Bohemian- to come back home. Ripley agrees, finds Dickie and…
The Tremor of Forgery is considered by many to be Patricia Highsmith’s finest novel. Set in Tunisia in the mid-1960s, it is the story of Howard Ingham, an American writer…
