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Carol by Patricia Highsmith
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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-year-o ...Show more
Deep Water: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
22.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'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 pleasure in flaunting her many affairs to her husband. When one of he ...Show more
Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks by Patricia Highsmith
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'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; before Carol became a cult classic of romantic obsession, w ...Show more
Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks by Patricia Highsmith
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'It promises to be one of the literary highlights of 2021 - publication of the diaries of Patricia Highsmith, one of the most conflicted, fascinating novelists of the 20th century' Edward Helmore, Guardian 'My secrets-the secrets that everyone has-are here, in black and white.' Published for the very ...Show more
Ripley Under Ground #2 by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Classics | Series: A\Ripley Novel Ser.
"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 role in the fraud, and keep his colleague's mouth shut. But not ever ...Show more
Ripley Under Water #5 by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Crime
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 expatr ...Show more
Ripley's Game #3 by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Classics | Series: A\Ripley Novel Ser.
'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, until an associate asks him to kill someone again. But Ripley detests murder, ...Show more
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
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, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a ...Show more
The Blunderer: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
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 bottom of a cliff. Under the intense scrutiny of th ...Show more
The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Classics
'Extraordinary... 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 is a portent of death. When she spots a stranger looking in through her window one night, she believes that he is a ...Show more
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Crime | Series: A\Ripley Novel Ser.
Ripley wanted out. He wanted money, success, the good life - and he was willing to kill for it. This is the first novel to feature Patricia Highsmith's anti-hero, Tom Ripley.
The Talented Mr Ripley #1 by Patricia Highsmith
22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: A\Ripley Novel Ser.
'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.' Tom Ripley wants money, success, and the good life - and he's willing to kill for it. Struggling to stay one step ahead ...Show more