Patricia Highsmith

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....

Legendary writer Patricia Highsmith's first collection of short stories, Eleven is an arresting group of dark masterpieces of obsession and foreboding, violence and instability....

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....

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

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

In Patricia Highsmith's debut novel, we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train....

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

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....

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....

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'....

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

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.....

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

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....

Living on his French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle age, is no longer the striving chancer of The Talented Mr. Ripley....

When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripley's French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he'd left behind....

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....

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....

For two years, Walter Stackhouse has been a faithful and supportive husband to his wife, Clara. But she is distant and neurotic....

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