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Two men meet in the picturesque backstreets of Athens. Chester MacFarlane 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 Chester and Colette, and their fates become fatally entwined.

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.

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, extortion, serial murder—Ripley still finds his appetite unquenched and longs to get back in the game.

Claire Morgan, una autora desconocida y que eligió permanecer en el más absoluto anonimato, publicó en 1952 una novela, El precio de la sal, notablemente audaz para la época. Los críticos trataron el libro con una mezcla de desconcierto y respeto, pero el éxito de público fue inmediato, y se vendieron más de un millón de ejemplares de la edición de bolsillo. La novela no volvió a editarse, y ahora reaparece con el título Carol, que originalmente le había dado su autora, y firmada por ésta con su verdadero nombre.

In The Boy Who Followed Ripley, Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction draws them into Berlin's seamy underworld. More than any other American literary character, Ripley provides "a lens to peer into the sinister machinations of human behavior." (John Freeman, Pittsburgh Gazette).

In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fondness turns obsessive when Ripley is sent to Italy to bring back his libertine pal, but he grows enraged by Dickie's ambivalent feelings for Marge, a charming American dilettante.

Der amerikanische Hochstapler und Fremdenführer Rydal lernt in Athen das elegante Ehepaar Chester und Colette MacFarland kennen. Die schöne Blonde erinnert ihn an seine unglückliche Jugendliebe, und während Rydal ihr immer mehr verfällt, zieht ihn Chester in einen Strudel des Verbrechens. Als man ihnen auf die Spur kommt, fliehen die drei über Kreta und Marseille bis nach Paris, wo sie ihr Schicksal schließlich einholt. Ein Roman über Eifersucht, Verrat, Mord und die verzweifelte Suche nach Glück.

Ein kleiner Ort an der tunesischen Küste. Ein Hotel-Bungalow. Ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller, der an einem Drehbuch arbeitet...

In den Erzählungen "Der Schneckenforscher" und "Die Heldin" seziert Patricia Highsmith zwei zunächst eher unauffällige Exemplare der Gattung Mensch: Während der Broker Peter Knoppert sich immer mehr in seine Leidenschaft für schleimige Schnecken hineinsteigert, kriecht das Kindermädchen Lucille Smith tiefer und tiefer in das Leben ihrer Arbeitgeber hinein und entwickelt eine ungesunde Hingabe für ihre Schützlinge.

I 1950, som 29-årig, debuterede Patricia Highsmith med denne etiske thriller "Farligt møde", om to mænd, der mødes tilfældigt på et tog og leger med tanken om at bytte mord. En uskyldig leg - indtil det ene mord virkelig bliver udført. Bogen fandt et bredt publikum og blev filmatiseret af Alfred Hitchcock allerede i 1951. Der er blevet refereret, kopieret og parodieret af bogens ide og plot lige siden. Patricia Highsmith vandt stor kunstnerisk anerkendelse for romanen og blev i 1951 nomineret til Edgar Award.

Ein neues "Tierleben", verfaßt nicht von Brehm, sondern von Highsmith, von Beruf subtile Analytikerin des menschlichen Mordes, privat faszinierte Schneckenforscherin und zärtliche Katzenfreundin. Huhn, Katze, Elefant, Ratte und Küchenschabe rächen sich fürchterlich, einfallsreich und unverhofft am Menschen - als ob sie auch Menschen wären.

Unbeschwerte Dolce Vita: Das ist das Leben, von dem Tom Ripley in seinem New Yorker Kellerloch träumt - und das sein Schulfreund Dickie Greenleaf führt. Dickies Vater, ein reicher Reeder, bittet Tom, nach Italien zu fahren und seinen "verlorenen Sohn" nach Amerika zurückzuholen: ein Traumauftrag für einen armen Nobody wie Tom. Noch ahnt niemand, wie weit Ripley gehen wird, um für immer zu Dickies Welt zu gehören.

Patricia Highsmith was one of the great 20th-century novelists, celebrated for classics The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train, but she was also a masterful and prolific short-story writer. This definitive new collection, featuring two stories that have never been published before, confirms Highsmith as a genius of the genre. Peerlessly disturbing, exhilarating and savagely funny, Highsmith's stories still have the power to startle, presenting a world that is frighteningly familiar and as relevant today as when they were written.

The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with this work that reveals the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life. In Deep Water, set in the small town of Little Wesley, Vic and Melinda Meller's loveless marriage is held together only by a...

Ray Garrett, a wealthy young American living in Europe, is grieving over the death of his wife. Ray is at a loss for why she would take her own life, but Peggy's father, Ed Coleman, has no such uncertainty - he blames Ray completely. Late one night in Rome, Coleman shoots Ray at point-blank range. He thinks he's had his revenge, but Ray survives and follows Coleman and his wealthy girlfriend to Venice.

Set in Tunisia in the mid-1960s, this is the story of Howard Ingham, an American writer who has gone abroad to gather material for a movie too sordid to be set in America. Ingham is cool toward the girlfriend he left behind in New York - but his feelings start to change when she doesn't answer his increasingly aggravated letters and the filmmaker who hired Ingham fails to show in Tunisia. 

The legendary writer Patricia Highsmith is best remembered today for her chilling psychological thrillers The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train. A critically acclaimed, best-selling author in Europe, Highsmith has for too long been underappreciated in the United States. Eleven is Highsmith's first collection of short stories, an arresting group of dark masterpieces of obsession and foreboding, violence and instability.

Relegated during her lifetime to the pulpy genre of mystery, Patricia Highsmith has emerged since her death in 1995 as one of “our greatest modernist writers” (Gore Vidal). Presented for the first time, this one-volume assemblage of her diaries and notebooks posthumously discovered behind Highsmith’s linens and culled from more than 8,000 pages by her devoted editor, Anna von Planta—traces the mesmerizing double-life of an artist who “[worked] like mad to be something”.