Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith - ISBN: 9781784876791
Paperback
Art fraud, murder, and the unsettling charm of Tom Ripley.

Ripley Under Ground

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    20 July 2021

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Summary

Reissued to mark the centenary of Patricia Highsmith and the upcoming BBC adaption, Ripley, these beautiful new editions mark Highsmith’s entry into Vintage Classics.

“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 exists.

Ripley needs to hide his role in the fraud, and keep his colleague’s mouth shut. But …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781784876791
ISBN-10:1784876798
Author:Patricia Highsmith
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:20 July 2021
Weight:205g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 18mm
Series:A Ripley Novel
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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 *

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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