Ripley Under Ground
Ripley Under Ground
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"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 exits. Ripley needs to hide his role in the fraud, and keep his colleague's mouth shut.
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Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
"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 exits. Ripley needs to hide his role in the fraud, and keep his colleague's mouth shut. But not everyone's nerves are as steady as his, especially when it comes to murder. The second in Highsmith's Ripley series, Ripley Under Ground is set six years after the events of The Talented Mr Ripley. 'Patricia Highsmith is unrivalled' Daily Telegraph
In Ripley Under Ground Patricia Highsmith is in her most brilliant form * Daily Telegraph *
The No1 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 *
The No1 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 *
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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781784876791 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784876798 |
| Title | Ripley Under Ground |
| Author | Patricia Highsmith |
| Series | A Ripley Novel |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2021-04-15 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |