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People Who Knock on the Door by Patricia Highsmith
22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: VMC
In a pitiless story of prying suburban self-righteousness, Patricia Highsmith introduces the Alderman family as they descend into moral crisis. When small-town insurance salesman Richard Alderman becomes a born-again Christian, his once tight-knit family quickly begins to rip apart at the seams. He and ...Show more
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
Named by The Times as the all-time number one crime writer, Patricia Highsmith was an author who broke new ground and defied genre cliches with novels such as The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train. In the classic creative writing guide Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction, Highsmith reveals h ...Show more
Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: A\Ripley Novel Ser.
"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 ever ...Show more
Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Ripley Ser.
Tom Ripley has a lovely house in the French countryside, a beautiful and very rich wife, and an art collection worthy of a connoisseur. But this gracious life has not come easily; it is based on murder, forgery, and smuggling, and could topple at any moment.
Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: A\Ripley Novel Ser.
'Marvellously, insanely readable... Highsmith has done it again' The Times"There's no such thing as a perfect murder... That's just a parlor game, trying to dream one up."Tom Ripley is enjoying his wealthy lifestyle in France, until an associate asks him to kill someone again. But Ripley detests murder, ...Show more
Small G - a Summer Idyll by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Completed just months before Patricia Highsmith's death in 1995, Small g explores the labyrinthine intricacies of passion, sexuality, and jealousy in a charming tale of love misdirected. 'What is most remarkable in this novel is the empathy . . . with which Highsmith writes about gay men . . . one can ...Show more
Sour Tales for Sweethearts by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
This poisonous little book contains four wicked stories of love gone wrong. Taken from Little Tales of Misogyny, Highsmith's satirical, cultish short-story collection, these dark and often funny sketches reveal how your lover may not always have your best interests at heart...
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Reading Level: very good
The psychologists would call it folie a deux...'Bruno slammed his palms together.' "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?" From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines i ...Show more
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: VMC Designer Collection
The psychologists would call it folie a deux . . .'Bruno slammed his palms together. "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?'' From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haine ...Show more
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PAULA HAWKINS, AUTHOR OF GIRL ON A TRAIN "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?" From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a ...Show more
Talented Mr Ripley: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection
Tom Ripley travels to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young American back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself very fond of Dickie Greenleaf. He wants to be like him - exactly like him. Suave, agreeable and utterly amoral, Ripley will stop at nothing to accomplish his goal. The Tal ...Show more
The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith
26.95 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
For two years, Walter Stackhouse has been a faithful and supportive husband to his wife, Clara. She is distant and neurotic, and Walter finds himself harboring gruesome fantasies about her demise. When Clara's dead body turns up at the bottom of a cliff in a manner uncannily resembling the recent death ...Show more