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Zusatztext 'Ripley is back! as polite and lethal as ever ... he does what he wants and gets away with it. That's why we like him' Informationen zum Autor Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1921. Her first novel, Strangers On A Train , was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley , published in 1955, was awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Scroll by the Mystery Writers of America and introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, who was to appear in many of her later crime novels. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll , was published posthumously just over a month later. Klappentext 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 expatriate being harassed by David Pritchard, a fellow American whose boorishness marks him as something of Ripley's alter-ego. Inexplicably familiar with all the incriminating details of Ripley's past, Pritchard is determined to expose him. He shadows Ripley's every move, first spying on him at home in France and then following him to Morocco. Tensions build on the return to Villeperce as Pritchard sets out to locate a body Ripley would prefer remain hidden in a nearby river ... The final part of Patricia Highsmith's brilliant Ripley series Zusammenfassung 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.
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Patricia Highsmith is the author of classic novels such as Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley. Born in Texas, she spent much of her life in England, France and Switzerland. She died in 1995 in Locarno, Switzerland.
Zusammenfassung
The gripping finale to Patricia Highsmith's legendary RIPLEY series, the inspiration for the hit Netflix series
'Compelling ... Highsmith's writing is as insistent as strange footsteps in the fog' SUNDAY TIMES
'The Ripley books are marvellously, insanely readable' THE TIMES
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, and a basement with suspicious stains on the floor...
This fifth and final novel in the series finds the sophisticated and amoral American expatriate being harassed by David Pritchard, a fellow American whose boorishness marks him as something of Ripley's alter-ego. Inexplicably familiar with all the incriminating details of Ripley's past, Pritchard is determined to expose him.
He shadows Ripley's every move, first spying on him at home in France and then following him to Morocco. Tensions build on the return to Villeperce as Pritchard sets out to locate a body in a nearby river, one Ripley would prefer to remain hidden...
Vorwort
The final part of Patricia Highsmith's brilliant Ripley series, starring Andrew Scott
Bericht
'A gripping addition to the Ripliad' Daily Telegraph
