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WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY VAL McDERMID Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first sho
Just in time for the centennial celebration of groundbreaking noir fiction writer Patricia Highsmith comes a reissue of her propulsive, engrossing debut, Strangers on a Train, with a new introduction by best-selling author Paula Hawkins. Guy Haines and Ch
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY , CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' THE TIMES 'I love Highsmith so much . . . What a revelation her writing is' GILLIAN FLYNN 'No one has created psychol
A suspenseful full-cast BBC radio adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's classic psychological thriller When Guy Haines meets Charles Bruno in the dining car of a Texas-bound train, they share their secrets in the way that only strangers can. Charles conf
'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times 'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' Daily Telegraph Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law, when an unexpected acquain
The psychologists would call it folie a deux... 'Bruno slammed his palms together. 'Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?''
The Buckmaster Gallery is staging another Derwatt exhibition, but now an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake. It is, of course, and he wants to talk to Derwatt, but Derwatt, inconveniently, is dead.
Tom Ripley detested murder. Unless it was absolutely necessary. Wherever possible, he preferred someone else to do the dirty work. In this case someone with no criminal record, who would commit 'two simple murders' for a very generous fee.
A chance encounter between two lonely women leads to a passionate romance in this lesbian cult classic. Therese, a struggling young sales clerk, and Carol, a homemaker in the midst of a bitter divorce, abandon their oppressive daily routines for the freed
Charm is the perfect disguise Tom Ripley is drifting through life in 1950s New York, a young man with quick wits, no prospects and a talent for imitation. When hes sent to Italy to persuade a wealthy heir, Dickie Greenleaf, to return home, the trip feels
**AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE WORLD WITH RICHARD E GRANT ** 'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times 'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' Daily Telegraph 'He is using you for what you are worth&
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PAULA HAWKINS, AUTHOR OF GIRL ON A TRAIN "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?" From this moment, alm
Every watcher becomes the watched When Robert becomes fixated on a woman he glimpses through her window, he imagines hes found peace - until she notices him, and their lives entwine in a spiral of suspicion and death. Highsmiths The Cry of the Owl is a st
The Blunderer was written by Highsmith in between Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley. The novel follows the young, successful and handsome, Walter Stackhouse who seems to have it all, that is, until the day his wife's body is found at the
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY , CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN INTRODUCED BY DENISE MINA 'Highsmith probes to the very core of her heroine with a controlled ferocity and single-mindedness that illuminates every page of her novel&
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY , CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'Bears Highsmith's unique, unsurpassed mixture of unsettling psychological insights' THE TIMES 'The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Su
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY , CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'Highsmith is a damn fine writer' GUARDIAN 'No one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously satisfying' VOGUE ' The setting is
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY , CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN ' The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense' MARK BILLINGHAM 'Her books have stylistic texture, psychological depth, mesmeric readabili
THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY , CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' THE TIMES 'The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense' MARK BILLINGHAM 'No one has created psychol
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY , CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'Highsmith writes about men like a spider writing about flies' OBSERVER 'For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY , CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'Venomously accurate' SUNDAY TIMES 'A border zone of the macabre, the disturbing, the not quite accidental . . . Highsmith achieves the effect of the occult w
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY , CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN Completed just months before Patricia Highsmith's death in 1995, Small g explores the labyrinthine intricacies of passion, sexuality, and jealousy in a charming tale
When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripley's French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he'd left behind: the seedy underworld of Berlin, involving kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Ripley becomes the boy's protector as fr
Now a major film starring Oscar-winner Ben Affleck and Golden Globe-nominee Ana de Armas. 'If you read crime stories at all or perhaps especially if you don't, you should read Deep Water' SUNDAY TIMES 'If I really don't like somebody,
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN INTRODUCED BY DENISE MINA 'Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense' MARK BILLINGHAM 'She kind of takes you
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY , CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' THE TIMES ' I love Highsmith so much . . . What a revelation her writing is' GILLIAN FLYNN 'Highsmith was every bit a
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING VIGGO MORTENSON AND KIRSTEN DUNST By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley , Carol and Strangers on a Train. 'The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense' MARK BILLINGHAM 'The
'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?' Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes plea
It was jealousy that kept David from sleeping, drove him from a tousled bed out of the dark and silent boarding house to walk the streets... David Kelsey has an unswerving conviction that life is going to work out for him - if he can just fix the 'Sit
The gripping finale to Patricia Highsmith's legendary RIPLEY series, the inspiration for the hit Netflix series Compelling ... Highsmith's writing is as insistent as strange footsteps in the fog' SUNDAY TIMES The Ripley books are marvellously,
Der junge und attraktive Tom Ripley schlägt sich mit kleineren Betrügereien durchs Leben, bis sich ihm die Möglichkeit bietet nach Italien zu reisen. Dort soll er den Sohn des reichen Herbert Greenleaf dazu überreden, wieder nach Hause zu kommen und die F
Mit 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' (1955) hat Patricia Highsmith dem Kriminalroman neue Dimensionen erschlossen: Im Mittelpunkt steht nicht der Detektiv, sondern der zweifache Mörder, aus dessen Sicht die Geschichte erzählt wird. Der Roman, der bei Mil
'Marvellously, insanely readable... Highsmith has done it again' The Times "There's no such thing as a perfect murder... That's just a parlor game, trying to dream one up." Tom Ripley is enjoying his wealthy lifestyle in France,
"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 Tom Ripley knows that artist no longer exits. Ripley needs to hide his rol
Named by The Times as the all-time number one crime writer, Patricia Highsmith was an author who broke new ground and defied genre clichés with novels such as The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train . In the classic creative writing guide Plotting
The Boy Who Followed Ripley, the fourth novel in the Ripley series, is one of Patricia Highsmith's darkest and most twisted creations. Tom Ripley meets a young American runaway who has a dark secret that he is desperate to hide. Soon this unlikely pai
Nowhere is Patricia Highsmith's affinity for animals more apparent than in The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder, for here she transfers the murderous thoughts and rages most associated with humans onto the animals themselves. You will meet, f
Patricia Highsmith's story of romantic obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely unrecognized, novels of the twentieth century. First published in 1952 and touted as "the novel of a love that society forbids," the book so
It's here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith's five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied for being a "sissy." Newly arrived in t
The legendary writer Patricia Highsmith is best remembered today for her chilling psychological thrillers The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train. A critically acclaimed best seller in Europe, Highsmith has for too long been underappreciated in t
'My secrets - the secrets that everyone has - are here, in black and white.' Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train , for the big screen; before Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense;
CLASSIC THRILLER BEHIND THE HITCHCOCK FILM AND HIGHSMITH'S FIRST NOVEL By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley and Carol 'Her books have stylistic texture, psychological depth, mesmeric readability' SUNDAY TIMES 'The original,
A BEAUTIFUL NEW QUARTERBOUND EDITION OF THE BELOVED, CLASSIC LOVE STORY Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, shy, inexp
Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre The Talented Mr. Ripley , Ripley Under Ground, and Ripley's Game appear here together in hardcover for the first time. Suave, agreeable, and completely amoral, Patricia Highsmiths hero, the inimi
Centering on an unlikely romance between a young sales clerk and a lonely housewife, this lesbian cult classic is an engrossing tale of passion and self-discovery. Therese, a young sales clerk, and Carol, a housewife in the throes of a bitter divorce, mee
An unlikely encounter between Therese, a young sales clerk, and Carol, a lonely homemaker, leads to an amorous romance in this classic work of lesbian fiction. Struggling against the oppressive routines of their daily lives and the strict social norms gov
The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories, featuring two groundbreaking novels as well as a trove of penetrating short stories. With a critical introduction by