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'Ripley Under Ground is Highsmith back on top of her most enjoyable humour-and
horrors form' Sunday Telegraph
The gallery is staging another Derwatt exhibition, but now an American collector
claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake. It is, of
course, and he wants to talk to Derwatt but he, inconveniently, is dead.
Ripley needs the perfect solution to keep his role in te fraud a secret and his reputation
clean but not everyone's nerves are as steady as his. Especially when it comes to
murder.
'By her hypnotic art Patricia Highsmith puts the suspense story into a toweringly high
place in the hierarchy of fiction' The Times
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Ripley is more mature here. He is not the gauche boy he was in the previous book who still had so much to learn. Nor is Ripley the underdog - he has fashioned a nice little life for himself in which he enjoys considerable leisure and luxury.
The means by which Ripley has arrived at his new found wealth are criminal and he must exercise further criminality in order to maintain his lovely life. Murder, impersonation, fantastic lies - Ripley is at it again and he must constantly plot, plan and scheme in order to stay ahead of the law.
All this in a sea of superb writing with Highsmith's characteristic sharpness, pace and attention to detail. This book is different to its predecessor, mostly because Ripley is different and his circumstances have certainly changed. I'm not sure that I understand Ripley any better after this book, but then again, his unusualness is part of his appeal.
Complicit in a fraud to fake the paintings of the in-fact dead Derwatt, Ripley must take action when the police begin to suspect that the 'new' Derwatts (supposedly painted by the artist while living in seclusion in Mexico) are faked. Donning a fake beard, Ripley makes an appearance as Derwatt at the Buckmaster Gallery in London attracting the attention of a certain American Derwatt collector, Murchison.
Ripley Under Ground revisits the black humour seen first in The Talented Mr Ripley, and begins to develop more fully the complex character of Tom Ripley who now has to contend with combining murder and deceit with his domestic life at 'Belle Ombre'.
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