"The Mysterious Mr Ripley" ist eine Sammlung von drei Kriminalromanen der Autorin Patricia Highsmith, die den charismatischen und manipulativen Antihelden Tom Ripley in den Mittelpunkt stellt. 1. **The Talented Mr. Ripley**: In diesem...

"The Talented Mr. Ripley," "Ripley Under Ground," und "Ripley's Game" sind die ersten drei Romane der berühmten Krimireihe von Patricia Highsmith, die sich um die komplexe Figur Tom Ripley drehen. In "The Talented Mr. Ripley" wird der...

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...

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

Every watcher becomes the watched When Robert becomes fixated on a woman he glimpses through her window, he imagines he’s found peace - until she notices him, and their lives entwine in a spiral of suspicion and death. Highsmith’s The...

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...

"The Boy Who Followed Ripley" ist der vierte Roman in Patricia Highsmiths berühmter Krimiserie über den charismatischen Antihelden Tom Ripley. In diesem Buch lebt Ripley ein scheinbar ruhiges Leben in Frankreich, bis er auf den jungen...

"Die zwei Gesichter des Januars" ist ein spannender Kriminalroman von Patricia Highsmith, der die Geschichte von Rydal Keener und dem Ehepaar Chester und Colette MacFarland erzählt. Die Handlung spielt in den 1960er Jahren und beginnt in...

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...

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...

People Who Knock on the Door, is a tale about blind faith and the slippery notion of justice that lies beneath the peculiarly American veneer of righteousness. von Highsmith, Patricia

"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...