Ripley under Ground (Vintage crime / Black lizard) [Paperback]

In this harrowing illumination of the psychotic mind, the enviable 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 such a gracious life has not come easily. One inopportune inquiry, one inconvenient friend, and Ripley's world will come tumbling down--unless he takes decisive steps. In a mesmerizing novel that coolly subverts all traditional notions of literary justice, Ripley enthralls us even as we watch him perform acts of pure and unspeakable evil.

'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

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.