Patricia Highsmith

A chance encounter between two lonely women leads to a passionate romance in this lesbian cult classic....

Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when an alluring woman in her 30s walks up to her counter....

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....

Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in flaunting her many affairs....

Tom Ripley is now the owner of a beautiful estate in France, a wealthy art collector and married to an heiress....

Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists and filmmakers.....

With a critical introduction by Joan Schenkar, situating Highsmith’s classic works within her own tumultuous life, this book provides a useful guide to some of her most dazzlingly seductive writing....

In den Erzählungen "Der Schneckenforscher" und "Die Heldin" seziert Patricia Highsmith zwei zunächst eher unauffällige Exemplare der Gattung Mensch...

David Kelsey has an invincible conviction that life is going to work out just as he has planned it - if he can just fix 'the situation'....

Tom Ripley is quietly living in luxury at his chateau at Villeperce. He has a past, however, that would not bear too much close scrutiny....