Ripley's Game

Informationen zum Autor Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921 but moved to new York when she was six. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided to become a writer at the age of sixteen. Her first novel Strangers on a Train , was made into a famous film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland in 1995. Her last novel Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later. Klappentext Someone else should do the dirty work for them - yes, someone with no criminal record could earn a very generous fee for doing a couple of simple murders. Ripley's Game is the third book in Highsmith's Ripley series, and was made into a film starring John Malkovich. Zusammenfassung Someone else should do the dirty work for them - yes, someone with no criminal record could earn a very generous fee for doing a couple of simple murders. Ripley's Game is the third book in Highsmith's Ripley series, and was made into a film starring John Malkovich.

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To call Patricia Highsmith a thriller writer is true but not the whole truth: her books have stylistic texture, psychological depth, mesmeric readability Sunday Times

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Highsmith
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781784876784
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-678-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: VINTAGE CLASSICS; A Ripley Novel; Mister Ripley / Mr Ripley / Tom Ripley
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Crime, France, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Thriller / suspense, Psychological thriller, Classic fiction, Relating to middle adulthood, Classic fiction: general and literary