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A master of the psychological crime genre, Patricia Highsmith is most famous for her quintet of best-selling Ripley novels, and her groundbreaking thriller Strangers on a Train (notably adapted as a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock). This extensive collection encompasses her best-known works, as well as selected short stories and three programmes about the author herself and her greatest creation, charismatic anti-hero Tom Ripley.

Il ritorno dell'iconico Tom Ripley, protagonista dell'omonima serie bestseller in tutto il mondo, in un avvincente thriller psicologico. Sei anni dopo i fatti narrati nel primo libro, Tom Ripley conduce una placida esistenza nella villa francese di "Belle Ombre". Sua moglie Héloïse ignora l'origine dello sfarzo in cui vivono: difatti Tom collabora con una casa d'arte londinese e guadagna un bel po' di quattrini vendendo dei falsi d'autore. Ma ora l'artista che produce i falsi inizia a sentirsi in colpa e un collezionista americano intende indagare sui quadri che ha acquistato.

Falsely convicted of fraud, the easygoing but naive Philip Carter is sentenced to six lonely, drug-ravaged years in prison. Upon his release, Carter is a more suspicious and violent man. For those around him, earning back his trust can mean the difference between life and death.

Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when an alluring woman in her 30s walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. She is an awkward 19-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love; Carol is a sophisticated, bored suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce and a custody battle for her only daughter. As Therese becomes irresistibly drawn into Carol's world, she soon realises how much they both stand to lose....

Отдыхающая в Греции пара аферистов знакомится с американцем. Новый знакомый прекрасно знает греческий язык, подрабатывает гидом для туристов. Но особенно полезен он становится, когда в отеле происходит инцидент со смертельным исходом... Побег связывает троицу в любовный треугольник, в котором за счастье и свободу борются два лика одной натуры. Спасаясь в греческих лабиринтах, повязанные кровью герои впутываются в смертельную игру.

Finalmente in audiolibro il capolavoro di Patricia Highsmith, il thriller che ha scolpito per sempre nella storia della letteratura un personaggio indimenticabile: Tom Ripley.Napoli, anni Cinquanta. Tom Ripley, giovane spiantato, ha il compito di riportare l'indolente Dickie Greenleaf dal ricchissimo padre, nella grigia New York. Ma l’incontro con Dickie, splendido ragazzo che dalla vitaha avuto tutto, fa nascere un’idea diabolica nella mente di Tom: non potrebbe sostituirsi a lui e vivere una vita perfetta?

Том Рипли, молодой человек без определенных занятий, встречает богатого предпринимателя Герберта Гринлифа, который нанимает его для деликатного дела: нужно вернуть его сына Дикки из Италии, где тот пребывает уже достаточно долго, плененный средиземноморским климатом и прелестями своей спутницы. Не без некоторых колебаний Том соглашается. Однако это поручение неожиданно оказывается довольно сложным, потому что Тому тоже очень нравится в Италии."

The Greatest Mysteries of All Time, Volume 5 is an exciting addition to this series, featuring the finest short-story mystery fiction by the most acclaimed writers, past and present. This unique collection of master writers, including such notables as Isaac Asimov, Ogden Nash, and Mickey Spillane, edited by multi-award-winning mystery connoisseur Otto Penzler, is a delightful mixture of mystery and suspense.

Patricia Highsmith's first novel was picked up by Hitchcock and was a world-wide success. Her second novel was meant to tell everything about her true inside and dare what no-one had dared to write before: a lesbian love-story with a happy ending. But when she eventually relented to publish it under a pseudonym, it was a decision that would shape her life more than she could have guessed at the time. Henceforth she would vent her inner life either encoded in her future novels or—unbeknownst to most—in the 18 diaries and 38 notebooks she kept throughout her life.

В поезде встречаются два совершенно незнакомых человека. Они вместе ужинают, болтают, выпивают. И тут один из них признается, что уже давно вынашивает мысль об идеальном преступлении. Он знает, как можно совершить убийство, да так, что никто не подкопается. Второму пассажиру эта идея кажется дикой, да и сам попутчик ему не слишком нравится. На следующее утро второй пассажир сходит с поез да, и вчерашний разговор начинает ему казаться лишь дурным сном. Но маховик преступления уже запущен...

Living on his French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle age, is no longer the striving chancer of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Having accrued considerable wealth through a long career of crime, he tires of his idyllic retirement. Highsmith's chameleon longs to get back in the game, so when a friend needs a favour, he relishes the opportunity.

En su lujosa finca cerca de París, Tom Ripley lleva una existencia apacible, cuidando el jardín, pintando, estudiando francés y escuchando música. Un día le telefonean de Londres sus socios de la Buckmaster Gallery, marchantes de Derwatt, un misterioso pintor que se oculta en un ignorado rincón de México mientras el precio de sus cuadros sube vertiginosamente. Sin embargo, un coleccionista americano sospecha que le han vendido un cuadro de Derwatt falsificado, por lo que urge la aparición del pintor para disipar sospechas... pero por desgracia Derwatt ha muerto.

El personaje de Tom Ripley, que ha fascinado a tantos lectores, y también a tantos de los mejores cineastas (René Clément, Wim Wenders, Anthony Minghella o Liliana Cavani, entre otros), es el protagonista de esta extraordinaria novela de Patricia Highsmith. Nada al principio une a Jonathan Trevanny con Tom Ripley. Jonathan es un hombre honesto y pobre que lleva una existencia apacible y gris, junto a su mujer y su hijo. ¿Por qué Tom Ripley le pide que asesine a dos mafiosos?

Neste segundo volume da série de cinco livros que narra a trajetória de um dos sociopatas mais conhecidos da ficção, Tom Ripley está morando em uma confortável propriedade no Sul da França ao lado da esposa, Heloise, a jovem herdeira de uma fortuna. Além de circular pelo jet set europeu e colher os frutos do roubo da identidade de Dickie Greenleaf, Tom administra um esquema de falsificação de quadros.

Neste primeiro volume da série de cinco livros que narra sua trajetória, ele tenta se estabelecer em Manhattan após fugir de seu lar mais do que disfuncional. Bom de lábia, exímio imitador e piadista, praticante de furtos e pequenos golpes, Tom vê sua sorte mudar ao receber uma proposta inusitada. Ele deve ir a uma aldeia na Itália e convencer Dickie Greenleaf, o filho de um rico industrial, a voltar para casa e assumir os negócios da família. O problema é que o vigarista é seduzido pelo estilo de vida refinado do playboy.

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.

Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in flaunting her many affairs to her husband. When one of her lovers is murdered, Vic hints to her latest conquest that he was responsible. As rumours spread about Vic's vicious streak, fiction and reality start to converge. It's only a matter of time before Vic really does have blood on his hands.

This wonderful collection, ideal for cat lovers and feline fanatics, brings together the best and worst of catty behaviour. Ranging from the very funny to the profound, this collection has something to please everyone - without running the risk of developing an allergy!

Tom Ripley is now the owner of a beautiful estate in France, a wealthy art collector and married to an heiress. The Buckmaster Gallery is staging an exhibition by the celebrated artist Derwatt, but 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.

When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripley's French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he'd left behind: the seedy underworld of Berlin, involving kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Ripley becomes the boy's protector as friendship develops between the young man with a guilty conscience and the older one with no conscience at all.