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Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
$25.00 AUD
Category: Crime
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. Ripley needs the perfect solution to keep his role in the fraud a secret and his reputation clean but not everyone's nerves are as steady ...Show more
Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | 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's Game by Patricia Highsmith
$25.00 AUD
Category: Crime
Tom Ripley detested murder. Unless it was absolutely necessary. If 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...
Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | 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
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
$30.00 AUD
Category: Crime
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?" From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines i ...Show more
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
$30.00 AUD
Category: Crime
Guy Haines loses his own identity after he is drawn into a plot to commit murder, in a new edition of the first novel by the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Reprint.
Talented Mr Ripley: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
$40.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: VMC Designer Collection
Tom Ripley travels to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young American back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself very fond of Dickie Greenleaf. He wants to be like him - exactly like him. Suave, agreeable and utterly amoral, Ripley will stop at nothing to accomplish his goal. The Tal ...Show more
The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime
'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 Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
$28.00 AUD
Category: Crime
"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 under ...Show more
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
$23.00 AUD
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 by Patricia Highsmith
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | 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