Product Description
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. It is, of course, and he wants to talk to Derwatt, but Derwatt, inconveniently, is dead. 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 as his. Especially when it comes to murder...
From the Back Cover
'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
About the Author
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
