Patricia Highsmith

Ascolta i racconti di una delle voci più amate della letteratura crime contemporanea. In "Urla d'amore", undici storie evocano atmosfere tese e perturbanti, dove anche la quotidianità si trasforma in fonte di inquietudine e scenari opprimenti. I personaggi prendono vita in mondi claustrofobici...

Dalla creatrice di Tom Ripley, un thriller psicologico coinvolgente e spietato. Victor Van Allen è un editore benestante e rispettato. Vive a Little Wesley (Massachusetts) con la moglie Melinda e la figlia Margherita. Dietro alla facciata di un matrimonio perfetto, la coppia mantiene un...

Il libro che ha ispirato il film L'Altro Uomo di Alfred Hitchcock. "Io ucciderò sua moglie e lei ucciderà mio padre. Ci siamo incontrati in treno e nessuno sa che ci conosciamo. Un alibi perfetto." Avvicinato da uno sconosciuto in uno scompartimento di un treno con una proposta decisamente...

Finalmente in audiolibro il capolavoro di Patricia Highsmith, il thriller che ha scolpito per sempre nella storia della letteratura un personaggio indimenticabile: Tom Ripley. Napoli, anni Cinquanta.

A major new reissue of the work of a classic noir novelist. Throughout her career, Patricia Highsmith brought a keen literary eye and a genius for plumbing the psychopathic mind to more than 30 works of fiction, unparalleled in their placid deviousness and sardonic humor. With deadpan accuracy...

For two years, Walter Stackhouse has been a faithful and supportive husband to his wife, Clara. But she is distant and neurotic, and Walter finds himself harboring gruesome fantasies about her demise. When Clara's dead body turns up at the bottom of a cliff in a manner uncannily resembling the...

Claire Morgan, una autora desconocida y que eligió permanecer en el más absoluto anonimato, publicó en 1952 una novela, El precio de la sal, notablemente audaz para la época. Los críticos trataron el libro con una mezcla de desconcierto y respeto, pero el éxito de público fue inmediato, y...

El personaje de Tom Ripley, que ha fascinado a tantos lectores, y también a tantos de los mejores cineastas (René Clément, Wim Wenders, Anthony Minghella o Liliana Cavani, entre otros), es el protagonista de esta extraordinaria novela de Patricia Highsmith. Nada al principio une a Jonathan...

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....

Tom Ripley passes his leisured days at his French country estate tending the dahlias, practicing the harpsichord, and enjoying the company of his lovely wife.....

En El talento de Mr. Ripley, la más célebre novela de Patricia Highsmith, aparece su más fascinante personaje: el inquietante y amoral Tom Ripley, figura prototípica de un género que Highsmith inventó, situado entre la novela policíaca y la novela negra, entre Graham Greene y Raymond...

En esta novela, de un suspense trepidante, encontramos de nuevo a Tom Ripley –el protagonista ambiguo y fascinante de El talento de Mr. Ripley– algunos años después, con una reputación intachable y casado con una joven y hermosa heredera francesa. En su lujosa finca cerca de París...

With its sinister humor and genius plotting, Ripley's Game is an enduring portrait of a compulsive, sociopathic American antihero....

Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction draws them into Berlin's seamy underworld.....

The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories, featuring the groundbreaking novels Strangers on a Train and The Price of Salt as well as a trove of penetrating short stories. With a critical introduction...

Ray Garrett, a wealthy young American living in Europe, is grieving over the death of his wife. Ray is at a loss for why she would take her own life, but Peggy's father, Ed Coleman, has no such uncertainty - he blames Ray completely. Late one night in Rome, Coleman shoots Ray at point-blank...

Rife with overtones of Dostoevsky, The Glass Cell, first published in 1964, combines a quintessential Highsmith mystery with a penetrating critique of the psychological devastation wrought by the prison system. Falsely convicted of fraud, the easygoing but naive Philip Carter is sentenced to six...

Available for the centenary of her birth, Patricia Highsmith’s diaries “offer the most complete picture ever published” of the canonical author (New York Times). Relegated during her lifetime to the pulpy genre of mystery, Patricia Highsmith has emerged since her death in 1995 as one of...

Ehe Patricia Highsmith durch ihren ersten Roman Zwei Fremde im Zug, Tiefe Wasser und Der Talentierte Mr. Ripley über Nacht berühmt wurde, schrieb sie psychologische Stories. Über entwurzelte Einwanderer, tapfere Liebende, wissende Mädchen und Jungen und vom Leben gebeutelte Menschen. Damals...

Zwei Fremde im Zug New York - Texas entdecken und planen das perfekte Alibi... für zwei Morde. Aus einem Moment der Unachtsamkeit heraus wird Guy zum Komplizen Brunos, der ihn auf eine schiefe Bahn mitnimmt, auf der es kein Festhalten und keine Moral mehr gibt und auch kein Entrinnen...