In <i>Ripley Under Ground </i>Patricia Highsmith is in her most brilliant form

Daily Telegraph

The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer

The Times

<i>Ripley Under Ground</i> is Highsmith back on top of her most enjoyable humour-and-horrors form

Sunday Telegraph

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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

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...
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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.
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In Ripley Under Ground Patricia Highsmith is in her most brilliant form
'Patricia Highsmith is unrivalled' - Daily Telegraph

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099283584
Publisert
1999-08-05
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage
Vekt
203 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

Biographical note

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.