Die Katzen waren Patricia Highsmiths beständigste Begleiter durchs Leben. Bis zu sechs hatte sie aufs Mal. Sie lebten mit ihr und um sie herum, sie schliefen in ihrem Bett und saßen auf ihrem Schreibtisch. Und sie wurden immer wieder zum...

Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law, when an unexpected acquaintance offers him a free trip to Europe and a chance to start over.Ripley wants money, success and the good life and he's willing to...

First published in 1980, this is the fourth novel in Highsmith's hugely influential, groundbreaking Ripley series. von Highsmith, Patricia

A masterpiece of noir fantasy in which Highsmith revels in eliciting the unsettling psychological forces that lurk beneath the surface of everyday life. von Highsmith, Patricia

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. It is a masterly book, a haunting book, a book that lingers long in the...

Der Schneckenforscher versammelt elf Erzählungen der Vereinsamung und seelischen Aberration, des subtilen bis drastischen Schreckens, der uns aus einem harmlos erscheinenden Alltag entgegentritt. von Highsmith, Patricia

Living on his posh French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle age, is no longer the striving comer of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Having accrued considerable wealth through a long career of crime-forgery,...

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Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921 but moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided to become a writer at the age of sixteen. Her first novel Strangers on a...

Patricia Highsmith reveals her secrets for producing world-class crime and thrillers von Highsmith, Patricia

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. von Highsmith, Patricia

Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened" (New York Times Book Review), was Patricia Highsmith's favorite creation. In...