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(0)Patricia Highsmith
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In Patricia Highsmith's debut novel, we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in Highsmith's perilous world-where, under the right circumstances, anybody is capable of murder. The inspiration for...
Author
Series
Complete Ripley novels volume 3
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Norton ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume 287 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Living on a posh French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle age, is no longer the striving comer of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Having accrued considerable wealth through a long career of crime -- forgery, extortion, serial murder -- Ripley still finds his appetite unsated and longs to get back in the game. Ripley relishes the opportunity to escape the doldrums of his idyllic retirement simultaneously repaying an...
Author
Series
Complete Ripley novels volume 2
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Norton edition.
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's been six years since Ripley murdered Dickie Greenleaf and inherited his money. Now, he lives in a beautiful French villa, surrounded by a world-class art collection and married to a pharmaceutical heiress. All seems serene in Ripley's world until a phone call from London shatters his peace. An art forgery scheme he set up a few years ago is threatening to unravel: a nosy American is asking questions and Ripley must go to London to put a stop...
Author
Series
Complete Ripley novels volume 5
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2008, ©1993
Edition
Norton ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume 304 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Tom Ripley is a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened. Here, we find Ripley ensconced on a French estate with a wealthy wife, a world-class art collection, and a past to hide. Ripley is confronted by a snooping American couple obsessed with the disappearance of an art collector who visited Ripley years before."-- Barnes and Noble
Author
Series
Complete Ripley novels volume 4
Publisher
Lippincott & Crowell
Pub. Date
©1980
Edition
Norton ed.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tom Ripley meets a young American runaway who has a dark secret that he is desperate to hide. Soon this unlikely pair is drawn into the seamy underworld of Berlin and a shocking kidnapping."-- Back cover
Author
Series
Complete Ripley novels volume 1
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 volume 288 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Tom Ripley is a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Tom Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Grenleaf, back from galivanting in Italy. Son Ripley's fascination with Dickie's debonair lifestyle turns obsesive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie's ambivalent afections for Marge, a charming American...
7) Deep water
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Deep Water" is set in the small town of Little Wesley. Vic and Melinda's loveless marriage is held together only by Melinda's extramarital affairs. Eventually, Vic tries to win her back by asserting himself through a tall tale of murder--one that soon comes true.
Vic and Melinda Van Allen's loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number...
Author
Series
Colección contemporánea volume 34
Pub. Date
1988
Edition
4a edición.
Physical Desc
184 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 262
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
877 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. He's hired to go to Italy to bring back the playboy son of a millionaire and soon is plunged into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"...a stylish a breathtaking thriller following the charismatic Chester MacFarland...and his alluring wife Colette...as they befriend a young guide...during a European trip. Their friendship quickly takes a dangerous turn when it morphs into a love triangle rife with envy, obsession, and murder." -- Container.
