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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
A View Of The Harbour: A Virago Modern Classic by Elizabeth Taylor
$24.99 AUD
Category: classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics,VMC Designer Collection
'Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning-point in one's own experience' - Elizabeth Bowen In the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy exterior, passions run high. Beautiful divorcee Tory ...Show more
Boy Who Followed Ripley: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
$21.99 AUD
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
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
Found in the Street: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
$24.99 AUD
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
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (#1) by Maya Angelou
$24.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir | Series: Vmc Ser.
Maya Angelou becomes a Virago Modern Classics author, with brand-new jackets and a major campaign for her seven volumes of memoir, starting with I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGSThe international classic and bestseller, Maya Angelou's memoir paints a portrait of 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a ...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
The Birds And Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
$39.99 AUD
Category: classics | Series: VMC
'How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew . . . ' A classic of alienation and horror, 'The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection ech ...Show more
The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith
$24.99 AUD
Category: crime & thriller | 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
This Sweet Sickness (Virago Classic) by Patricia Highsmith
$24.99 AUD
Category: crime & thriller | Series: VMC
David Kelsey has an invincible conviction that life is going to work out just as he has planned it - if he can just fix 'the situation'. His one true love, the brilliant, beautiful Annabelle, has married another man. But that doesn't mean they can't still be friends. And even though she is pregnant with ...Show more
Those Who Walk Away: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
$21.99 AUD
Category: classics | Series: VMC
The honeymoon is over; the bride dead by her own hand. Ray Garrett, the grieving husband, convinces the police in Rome of his innocence, but not his father-in-law, Ed Coleman, who shoots him at point-blank range and leaves him for dead. Ray survives and follows Coleman to Venice, where the two fall into ...Show more