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Ripley Under Ground

Ripley Under Ground

by Patricia Highsmith
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Publication Date: 06/02/2014
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Discover the second novel in the iconic, mesmerising RIPLEY series - now a major Netflix series starring Andrew Scott.


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**'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' THE TIMES


'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' DAILY TELEGRAPH**


'The sequence of novels allows Highsmith to create a frightening sense of momentum' GUARDIAN


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. Especially when it comes to murder.


Ripley Under Ground is an ingenious novel of masks and identity, illusion and reality, and is followed by Ripley's Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley and Ripley Under Water.

ISBN:
9780349004655
9780349004655
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
06-02-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six, where she attended the Julia Richman High School and Barnard College. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer.

Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley, published in 1955, introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella.

Graham Greene called Patricia Highsmith 'the poet of apprehension', saying that she 'created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger' and The Times named her no.1 in their list of the greatest ever crime writers. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.

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