Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith - ISBN: 9780099283584
Paperback
Fake art, a dead painter, and Ripley’s solution: murder.

Ripley Under Ground

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    5 August 1999

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Summary

‘Patricia Highsmith is unrivalled’ - Daily Telegraph

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. It is, of course, and he wants to talk to Derwatt, but Derwatt, inconveniently, is dead.

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 as his. Especially when it comes to murder…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099283584
ISBN-10:0099283581
Author:Patricia Highsmith
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:5 August 1999
Weight:198g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 20mm
Series:A Ripley Novel
What They're Saying

Critics Review

In Ripley Under Ground Patricia Highsmith is in her most brilliant form

In Ripley Under Ground Patricia Highsmith is in her most brilliant form * Daily Telegraph *The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer * The Times *Ripley Under Ground is Highsmith back on top of her most enjoyable humour-and-horrors form * Sunday Telegraph *By her hypnotic art Highsmith puts the suspense story into a toweringly high place in the hierachy of fiction * The Times *The Ripley books are marvellously, insanely readable * The Times *Patricia Highsmith is a crime novelist whose books one can re-read many times. There are very few of whom one can say that – Graham Greene

About The Author

Patricia Highsmith

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 Train was made into a famous film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland in 1995. Her last novel Small g- A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later.

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