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Nothing That Meets the Eye by Patricia Highsmith
$27.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
This volume of stories, many of them published here for the first time, spans almost fifty years of Highsmith's career. Showing the evolution of her writing from her days as a struggling freelancer living in New York in the 1940s to her later years when she was an expatriate in Switzerland, they reveal ...Show more
Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks by Patricia Highsmith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'My secrets - the secrets that everyone has - are here, in black and white.'Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; before Carol became a cult classic of romantic obsession, w ...Show more
Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
The Buckmaster Gallery is staging another Derwatt exhibition, but now an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake. Ripley needs the perfect solution to keep his role in the fraud a secret and his reputation clean but not everyone's nerves are as steady ...Show more
Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: A\Ripley Novel Ser.
"You're always good on ideas, Tom..."An American art collector is claiming that the expensive masterpiece he bought is a fake. He wants to meet with the artist - but Tom Ripley knows that artist no longer exits.Ripley needs to hide his role in the fraud, and keep his colleague's mouth shut. But not ever ...Show more
Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: A\Ripley Novel Ser.
'Marvellously, insanely readable... Highsmith has done it again' The Times"There's no such thing as a perfect murder... That's just a parlor game, trying to dream one up."Tom Ripley is enjoying his wealthy lifestyle in France, until an associate asks him to kill someone again. But Ripley detests murder, ...Show more
Sour Tales for Sweethearts by Patricia Highsmith
$4.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
This poisonous little book contains four wicked stories of love gone wrong. Taken from Little Tales of Misogyny, Highsmith's satirical, cultish short-story collection, these dark and often funny sketches reveal how your lover may not always have your best interests at heart...
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Reading Level: very good
The psychologists would call it folie a deux...'Bruno slammed his palms together.' "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?" From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines i ...Show more
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PAULA HAWKINS, AUTHOR OF GIRL ON A TRAIN "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?" From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a ...Show more
Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes by Patricia Highsmith
$18.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
A brilliant collection of stories from the creator of Tom Ripley. A brilliant collection of stories, based on natural and unnatural catastrophes and exploring the macabre and its meaning. The stories range from midnight revelling in an East Austrian cemetery to a picnic for "crackpots" on the White Ho ...Show more
The Blunderer: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: VMC
The Blunderer was written by Highsmith in between Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley. The novel follows the young, successful and handsome, Walter Stackhouse who seems to have it all, that is, until the day his wife's body is found at the bottom of a cliff. Under the intense scrutiny of th ...Show more
The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
'Extraordinary... one of her finest novels' Guardian"If everybody in the world didn't keep watching to see what everybody else did, we'd all go berserk."Jenny believes that sighting an owl is a portent of death. When she spots a stranger looking in through her window one night, she believes that he is a ...Show more