Patricia Highsmith
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The Talented Mr Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
- Little brown book group digital
- 6 Février 2014
- 9780349004624
Tom Ripley is struggling to stay afloat, financially and socially, in 1950s New York. Having failed at several jobs, he is dabbling in small-time fraud and living on the charity of friends. One day, a chance encounter results in him travelling to Italy, supposedly to persuade Dickie Greenleaf, the p...
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This is the third novel in Highsmith's hugely influential, groundbreaking Ripley series. ...
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Tom Ripley is a man who wants money, success, the good life - and is willing to kill for it. To avoid charges of forgery, the Buckmaster Gallery must produce the British painter, Derwatt. But he is dead. Tom Ripley is called in to work miracles, and will stop at nothing to protect himself. ...
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Tom Ripley is quietly living in luxury at his chateau at Villeperce. He has a past, however, that would not bear too much close scrutiny. He is certain that he has covered his tracks where murder and forgery are concerned. But when a certain American couple move in next door, he soon realises his ev...
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Strangers on a Train
Patricia Highsmith
- Little brown book group digital
- 6 Février 2014
- 9780349004679
Two total strangers who meet on a train discuss the perfect murder. Strangers on a Train is Patricia Highsmith's first novel and was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1951 film of the same name. ...
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The Two Faces of January
Patricia Highsmith
- Little brown book group digital
- 10 Avril 2014
- 9780751555868
Two men meet in the picturesque backstreets of Athens. Chester MacFarland is a conman with multiple false identities, near the end of his rope and on the run with his young wife Colette. Rydal Keener is a young drifter looking for adventure: he finds it in one evening as the law catches up to Cheste...
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Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
Patricia Highsmith
- Little brown book group digital
- 27 Février 2014
- 9780751555981
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Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes
Patricia Highsmith
- Little brown book group digital
- 6 Mars 2014
- 9780349004792
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The Animal Lover's Book of Beastly Murder
Patricia Highsmith
- Little brown book group digital
- 6 Mars 2014
- 9780349004785
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Nothing that Meets the Eye
Patricia Highsmith
- Little brown book group digital
- 6 Mars 2014
- 9780349004778
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The Black House eerily evokes the warm familiarities of suburban life: the manicured lawns, the white picket fences, and the local pubs, each providing the setting for Highsmith's chilling portraits. Some neighbours are playing scrabble one evening when their cat drags into their house not a bird,...
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Mermaids on the Golf Course
Patricia Highsmith
- Little brown book group digital
- 6 Mars 2014
- 9780349004754
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Slowly, Slowly in the Wind
Patricia Highsmith
- Little brown book group digital
- 6 Mars 2014
- 9780349004747
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Howard Ingham finds it strange that no one has written to him since he arrived in Tunisia - neither the film director that he is supposed to be meeting in Tunis, nor his lover in New York who is, he hopes, missing him. While he waits around at a beach resort, unable to get going on the film script h...
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Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, rebellious, tempestuous and sexy. Unfortunately for wealthy socialite Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. An incorrigible flirt, Melinda spares no opportunity to flaunt her many lovers to her husband. In response, Vic doesn't miss an opportunity to let them know that he's...
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Robert Forester, depressed after a painful divorce, begins to spy on Jenny, his pretty young neighbour. Watching her, bright and seemingly carefree, alleviates his loneliness and helps him escape the discontent of his life. Caught in the act, he is surprised when Jenny invites him in, but all is not...
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The Boy Who Followed Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
- Little brown book group digital
- 3 Avril 2014
- 9780349004631
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 friendship develops between the young man with a guilty con...
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Philip Carter has spent six years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. On his release his beautiful wife is waiting for him. He has never had any reason to doubt her. Nor their friend, Sullivan. Carter has never been suspicious, or violent. But prison can change a man. 'The Glass Cell has lost...
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Those Who Walk Away
Patricia Highsmith
- Little brown book group digital
- 6 Novembre 2014
- 9780349004853
The honeymoon is over; the bride dead by her own hand. Ray Garrett, the grieving husband, convinces the police in Rome of his innocence, but not his father-in-law, Ed Coleman, who shoots him at point-blank range and leaves him for dead. Ray survives and follows Coleman to Venice, where the two fall ...
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A Suspension of Mercy
Patricia Highsmith
- Little brown book group digital
- 6 Novembre 2014
- 9780349004563
Sydney Bartleby has killed his wife. At least, he has thought about it, compulsively, repeatedly, plotting schemes, designing escapes, forging alibis. Of course he has; he's a thriller writer. He even knows how to dispose of her body. But when Alicia takes a long, unannounced holiday, Sydney descend...
