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Avvicinato da uno sconosciuto in uno scompartimento di un treno con una proposta decisamente inconsueta e molto pericolosa, l'insicuro e tormentato Guy Haines si trova, quasi contro la sua volontà, invischiato in un incubo da cui non potrà più sottrarsi. Il romanzo d'esordio di Patricia Highsmith, che ha ispirato il film di Alfred Hitchcock L'altro uomo, è un thriller a orologeria su un delitto perfetto e, insieme, un'indagine nel profondo della psiche dei due protagonisti, due uomini legati da una complicità che li porterà a superare ogni limite.

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 equilibrio precario grazie a un accordo che consente a Melinda di avere amanti. Durante una festa, per gelosia, Victor racconta per scherzo di aver ucciso un uomo. La menzogna innesca una spirale oscura che lo spinge verso atti inimmaginabili.

Nella sua villa francese, Tom Ripley accoglie il tormentato Frank, che ha appena ucciso il padre. Invece di denunciarlo, il truffatore sceglie di proteggerlo, guidarlo e trascinarlo con sé fino a Berlino. Ma un amore non corrisposto e un destino segnato dalla violenza porteranno entrambi verso un epilogo inevitabile.

Sei mesi dopo i fatti narrati nel secondo libro, Tom Ripley vive ancora nella sua villa francese di "Belle Ombre" insieme alla moglie Héloïse. Ora, in combutta col perfido agente segreto Minot, manipola il ricco e fragile Jonathan Trevanny convincendolo di essere un malato terminale. Sfruttando i timori dell'uomo circa l'avvenire finanziario della sua famiglia, Ripley lo trasformerà nientemeno che un sicario della mafia italiana.

Un thriller psicologico sottile e inquieto, quinto e ultimo atto della saga di Ripley. Tom Ripley vive in una villa elegante vicino a Fontainebleau. Ha una moglie devota, un conto in banca solido e un passato che non fa domande. Ma l'arrivo di David Pritchard, vicino eccentrico e ossessivo, riapre ferite sepolte. Indagini, pedinamenti, un cadavere riemerso da un canale: tutto minaccia di riportare a galla ciò che Ripley ha lasciato affondare.

A chance encounter between two lonely women leads to a passionate romance in this lesbian cult classic. Therese, a struggling young sales clerk, and Carol, a homemaker in the midst of a bitter divorce, abandon their oppressive daily routines for the freedom of the open road, where their love can blossom. But their newly discovered bliss is shattered when Carol is forced to choose between her child and her lover.

Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law when an unexpected acquaintance offers him the chance to start over. Ripley wants money, success, and the good life and he's willing to kill for it. When his newfound happiness is threatened, his response is as swift as it is shocking.

Living on his posh French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle age, is no longer the striving comer of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Having accrued considerable wealth through a long career of crime—forgery, extortion, serial murder—Ripley still finds his appetite unquenched and longs to get back in the game.

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 se vendieron más de un millón de ejemplares de la edición de bolsillo. La novela no volvió a editarse, y ahora reaparece con el título Carol, que originalmente le había dado su autora, y firmada por ésta con su verdadero nombre.

In Patricia Highsmith's debut novel, we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in Highsmith's perilous world - where, under the right circumstances, anybody is capable of murder.

Set in Tunisia in the mid-1960s, this is the story of Howard Ingham, an American writer who has gone abroad to gather material for a movie too sordid to be set in America. Ingham is cool toward the girlfriend he left behind in New York - but his feelings start to change when she doesn't answer his increasingly aggravated letters and the filmmaker who hired Ingham fails to show in Tunisia. 

A master of the psychological crime genre, Patricia Highsmith is most famous for her quintet of best-selling Ripley novels, and her groundbreaking thriller Strangers on a Train (notably adapted as a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock). This extensive collection encompasses her best-known works, as well as selected short stories and three programmes about the author herself and her greatest creation, charismatic anti-hero Tom Ripley.

In A Suspension of Mercy, a masterpiece of noir fantasy, Highsmith revels in eliciting the unsettling psychological forces that lurk beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life.

The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of a novel that will give dog owners nightmares for years to come. With an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith turns our next-door neighbors into sadistic psychopaths, lying in wait among white picket fences and manicured lawns. In A Dog's Ransom, Highsmith blends savage humor with brilliant social satire in this dark tale of a high-minded criminal who hits a wealthy Manhattan couple where it hurts the most.

In This Sweet Sickness, David Kelsey has an unyielding conviction that life will turn out all right for him; he just has to fix "the situation" of being in love with a married woman. Obsessed with Annabelle and the life he has imagined for them, David prepares to win her over, whatever it takes. In this riveting tale of a deluded loner, Highsmith reveals her uncanny ability to draw out the secret obsessions that overwhelm the human heart.

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, Heloise. Never mind the bloodstains on the basement floor.

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 recent death of a woman who was murdered by her husband, Walter finds himself under intense scrutiny.

This wonderful collection, ideal for cat lovers and feline fanatics, brings together the best and worst of catty behaviour. Ranging from the very funny to the profound, this collection has something to please everyone - without running the risk of developing an allergy!

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.

The legendary writer Patricia Highsmith is best remembered today for her chilling psychological thrillers The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train. A critically acclaimed, best-selling author in Europe, Highsmith has for too long been underappreciated in the United States. Eleven is Highsmith's first collection of short stories, an arresting group of dark masterpieces of obsession and foreboding, violence and instability.