Ripley under ground / Patricia Highsmith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ripley, Tom (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Ripley, Tom (Fictitious character).

Serial murderers--Fiction.

Serial murderers.

Psychopaths--Fiction.

Psychopaths.

Criminals--Fiction.

Criminals.

France--Fiction.

France.

Genre:

Mystery fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction

Fiction

Psychological fiction

Detective and mystery fiction.

Detective and mystery stories.

Physical Description:

285 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Norton edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.

Summary:

Tom Ripley has a lovely house in the French countryside, a beautiful and very rich wife, and an art collection worthy of a connoisseur. But this gracious life has not come easily; it is based on murder, forgery, and smuggling, and could topple at any moment.

"It's been six years since Ripley murdered Dickie Greenleaf and inherited his money. Now, in Ripley Under Ground (1970), 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 to it. In this second Ripley novel, Patricia Highsmith offers a mesmerizing and disturbing tale in which Ripley will stop at nothing to preserve his tangle of lies."--Back cover

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780393332131

0393332136

OCLC:

192134604