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A Dog's Ransom by Patricia Highsmith
$24.99 AUD
Category: crime & thriller | Series: VMC
'Dear Sir, I suppose you are pretty pleased with yourself? Superior to everyone, you think. A fancy apartment and a snob dog. You are a disgusting little machine, nothing else. Your days are numbered.' Ed Reynolds, an editor at a prestigious publishing house, has received a number of anonymous poison pe ...Show more
A Suspension of Mercy: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
$21.99 AUD
Category: classics | Series: VMC
Sydney Bartleby has killed his wife. At least, he has thought about it, compulsively, repeatedly, plotting schemes, designing escapes, forging alibis. Of course he has; he's a thriller writer. He even knows how to dispose of her body. But when Alicia takes a long, unannounced holiday, Sydney descends in ...Show more
Boy Who Followed Ripley: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: classics | Series: VMC
When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripley's French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he'd left behind: the seedy underworld of Berlin, involving kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Ripley becomes the boy's protector as friendship develops between the young man with a guilty conscie ...Show more
Carol by Patricia Highsmith
$22.99 AUD
Category: fiction a-z
Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteen-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfri ...Show more
Deep Water: The compulsive classic thriller from the author of THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY by Patricia Highsmith
$21.99 AUD
Category: crime & thriller | Series: VMC
'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him ...You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?' Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in flaunting her many affairs to her husband. When one of her l ...Show more
Deep Water: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
$22.99 AUD
Category: classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?' Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in flaunting her many affairs to her husband. When one of he ...Show more
Found in the Street: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: classics | Series: VMC
On a stroll through Greenwich Village, security guard Ralph Linderman finds a wallet on the sidewalk. It belongs to Jack Sutherland, a wealthy aspiring artist, and it is his misfortune to have it returned to him - with all $263 and credit cards untouched. Because now Ralph knows where Jack lives. Elsie ...Show more
Little Tales of Misogyny by Patricia Highsmith
$16.99 AUD
Category: crime & thriller | Series: VMC
Little Tales of Misogyny is Highsmith's legendary, cultish short-story collection. With an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith turns our next-door neighbours into sadistic psychopaths, lying in wait among white picket fences and manicured lawns. In these darkly satirical, often hilarious, sketches you' ...Show more
Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: crime & thriller
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. 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 ...Show more
Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith
$19.99 AUD
Category: crime & thriller
Tom Ripley is quietly living a life of luxury at his chateau at Villeperce, and, as ever, is keeping one step ahead of the law - he has, after all, a past that would not bear too much close scrutiny...The fifth novel featuring the protagonist Tom Ripley finds the sophisticated and amoral American expatr ...Show more
Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: crime & thriller
Tom Ripley detested murder. Unless it was absolutely necessary. If possible, he preferred someone else to do the dirty work. In this case someone with no criminal record, who would commit 'two simple murders' for a very generous fee...
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
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Category: fiction a-z | Series: A\Ripley Novel Ser.
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.