Contemporary / American English Guy Haines is travelling through Texas on a train when a stranger invites him to share a meal. But the stranger has a terrible plan. 'You murder my father, and I'll murder your wife,' he suggests. So begins Guy's journey into a world of madness, lies and death.[...]
Contemporary / American English One night, Tom Ripley is insulted by a man at a party. An ordinary person would just be upset by this, but Tom Ripley is not an ordinary person. Months later, when a friend asks him for help with two simple murders, he remembers the night and plans revenge. He starts [...]
Contemporary / American English
Tom Ripley goes to Italy. He needs to find Dickie Greenleaf. Dickies father wants him to go back to America. But Tom wants to stay in Italy, and he will do anything to get what he wants.
The Talented Mr Ripley is now an exciting movie with Matt Damon, Gwyn[...]
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 shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteen-y[...]
Patricia Highsmith - author of STRANGERS ON A TRAIN and THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY - had more than her fair share of secrets. During her life, she felt uncomfortable about discussing the source of her fiction and refused to answer questions about her private life. Yet after her death in February 1995, H[...]
Tom Ripley is quietly living a life of luxury at his chateau at Villeperce, and, as ever, is keeping one step ahead of the law - he has, after all, a past that would not bear too much close scrutiny...The fifth novel featuring the protagonist Tom Ripley finds the sophisticated and amoral American ex[...]
"I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew "The Price of Salt" and modeled the climactic cross-country car chase in "Lolita" on Therese and Carol's frenzied bid for freedom," writes Terry Castle in "The New Republic" about this novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, first published in 1952 un[...]
All three Ripley novels, The Talented Mr Ripley, Ripley Underground and Ripleys Game.
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 on a Train (1952). The collection of essays examines films such as The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Two Fac[...]
En klassisk deckartrilogi av genrens mästare. Patricia Highsmiths antihjälte Tom Ripley är älskvärd, trevlig och fullständigt galen - för att få igenom sina onda avsikter igenom drar han sig inte ens för att mörda dem som står honom närmast.
I sin strävan efter det liv han a[...]
Han är kallhamrad och hänsynslös men ändå charmerande. Han är en potentiell mördare. Han heter Tom Ripley. Idén till sina klassiska böcker om Mr Ripley fick Patricia Highsmith 1952 när hon en tidig morgon från sin hotellbalkong i Positano fick syn på en ensam man som vandrade på den fol[...]
I En man utan samvete är Tom Ripley tillbaka lika kallhamrad och hänsynslös som förut, men trots allt lika charmerande. Väl installerad i sin villa på franska landsbygden tillsammans med sin vackra hustru, miljonärsdottern Heloise, fortsätter han sin väg på brottets bana. Nu hamnar han i e[...]
I sin villa i Frankrike lever Tom Ripley ett stillsamt liv. Han påtar i trädgården, målar tavlor och ägnar sig åt sin vackra hustru miljonärsdottern Heloise.
Men idyllen är bedräglig. Reeves Minot, en småskurk och hälare, besöker Tom och ber om hans hjälp. Så råkar Tom i ko[...]