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The Blunderer: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
The Blunderer was written by Highsmith in between Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley. The novel follows the young, successful and handsome, Walter Stackhouse who seems to have it all, that is, until the day his wife's body is found at the bottom of a cliff. Under the intense scrutiny of th ...Show more
The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith
24.95 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
Robert Forester is a fundamentally decent man who attracts trouble like a magnet, and when he begins watching the domestic simplicity of Jenny's life through her window, the deceptive calm of suburban Pennsylvania is shattered.
The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
'Extraordinary... one of her finest novels' Guardian"If everybody in the world didn't keep watching to see what everybody else did, we'd all go berserk."Jenny believes that sighting an owl is a portent of death. When she spots a stranger looking in through her window one night, she believes that he is a ...Show more
The Glass Cell: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: VMC
Philip Carter has spent six years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. On his release his beautiful wife is waiting for him. He has never had any reason to doubt her. Nor their friend, Sullivan. Carter has never been suspicious, or violent. But prison can change a man. 'The Glass Cell has lost little ...Show more
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
26.95 AUD
29.95 (10% off)
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
"I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew "The Price of Salt" and modeled the climactic cross-country car chase in "Lolita" on Therese and Carol's frenzied bid for freedom," writes Terry Castle in "The New Republic" about this novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, first published in 1952 under ...Show more
The Price of Salt: Or Carol by Patricia Highsmith
9.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A chance encounter between two lonely women leads to a passionate romance in this lesbian cult classic. Therese, a struggling young sales clerk, and Carol, a homemaker in the midst of a bitter divorce, abandon their oppressive daily routines for the freedom of the open road, where their love can blossom ...Show more
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith by Patricia Highsmith
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In a cruel twist of irony, Texas-born Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) is being recognized only after her death for her inestimable genius in her native land. With the savage humor of Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Poe, she brought a distinctly contemporary acuteness to her prolific body of noir fic ...Show more
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: A\Ripley Novel Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Ripley wanted out. He wanted money, success, the good life - and he was willing to kill for it. This is the first novel to feature Patricia Highsmith's anti-hero, Tom Ripley.
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: A\Ripley Novel Ser.
'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' - The Times 'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' - Daily Telegraph 'He is using you for what you are worth.' Tom Ripley wants money, success, and the good life - and he's willing to kill for it. Struggling to stay one step ahead ...Show more
The Talented Mr Ripley (Netflix TVTI) by Patricia Highsmith
22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
This sleek and modern Netflix tie-in edition marks the return of Highsmith's classic story to our screens, cementing The Talented Mr Ripley's iconic position as a tale that has triggered delight and disgust in readers and viewers alike for decades, and will continue to do so for decades to come. * Tom R ...Show more
The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Howard Ingham finds it strange that no one has written to him since he arrived in Tunisia - neither the film director that he is supposed to be meeting in Tunis, nor his lover in New York who is, he hopes, missing him. While he waits around at a beach resort, unable to progress on the film script he is ...Show more
The Two Faces of January FTI by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
Two men meet in the picturesque backstreets of Athens. Chester MacFarlane is a conman with multiple false identities, near the end of his rope and on the run with his young wife Colette. Rydal Keener is a young drifter looking for adventure: he finds it in one evening as the law catches up to Chester an ...Show more