Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s: The Killer Inside Me / The Talented Mr. Ripley / Pick-up / Down There / The Real Cool Killers (Library of America)

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The best American crime novels deserve their place in the pantheon of American literature, but they hold special interest for cinema enthusiasts, who can both compare them to the movies they became and can roll imaginary films of the stories in their minds. Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s is the second of Library of America's two-volume anthology of underground U.S. fiction. The first anthology featured works from the 1930s and '40s that had been made into classic films noir. This volume focuses on fiction written after the crime genre had acquired conventions that younger writers toyed with and sometimes broke. The movies made from such stories were equally radical.

Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley is the source for René Clément's bristling Purple Noon, a movie that features Alain Delon's quintessential performance. David Goodis's Down There inspired François Truffaut's neo-noir masterpiece Shoot the Piano Player. Jim Thompson, the brilliant author who scripted The Killing and Paths of Glory for Stanley Kubrick, wrote several novels that have been turned into movies, including The Grifters and The Getaway. He is represented here by one of his most uncompromising works, The Killer Inside Me, which was filmed by Burt Kennedy in 1976. Charles Willeford's Pick-Up and Chester Himes's The Real Cool Killers have not yet been made into movies, but the blistering prose and nihilistic worlds of these authors, and of all the writers represented in this volume, is astonishingly cinematic. This lovely hardcover edition contains biographical, textual, and explanatory notes.

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An excellent compilation.......2007-01-07

The other reviewers misunderstand "Pick Up", (****warning -- spoiler****) which is a fascinating novel because the narrator is mentally disturbed and completely unreliable. This fact explains the "twist" ending, a number of apparent editing errors and the unlikely events that occur throughout.

The Final Volume on the "Crime Novels" Series.......2005-11-03

"Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950's" is the second and last volume of the hardboiled anthology published by the Library of America starting with the volume devoted to the genre in the 30's and 40's. This follow-up continues the saga of run-down characters hardened by experience and tough luck. The familiar cast of roguish males, femme fatales, and temperamental and violent detectives set the stage for a diverse and entertaining ride into the depths of the underworld.

"The Killer Inside Me" - Jim Thompson's most popular work is a memorable tale of a Texas law enforcer with a sinister past whose dark and psychotic nature is cunningly veiled behind a genial facade that barely contains "the sickness" which the main character has successfully concealed. A sudden turn of events unleashes the beast inside leading to a tragic odyssey of disillusion, violence, and murder. Pioneering in it's time for revealing the inner mind of the serial killer, the bracing prose and chilling character development makes this work one of the best in the genre.

"The Talented Mr. Ripley" - Tom Ripley is a con artist successfully making ends meet through one of the most reprehensible professions in New York City. A drifter and social outcast, one night in a bar he comes across a parent of an old acquaintance he barely recalls and is asked to do a favor. When he consents, his true nature unfolds in this story of murder, sexuality, and identity. Made into film in 1999 starring Matt Damon in the leading role, this cosmopolitan travelogue with a Decadent touch in the end introduced the world to one of the most oddly sympathetic and diabolical characters in Literature.

"Pick-Up" - Charles Willeford's winning style successfully conveys the sad and tragic tale of two lost alcoholics in the skid row section of San Francisco in the 1950's. Scene by depressing scene the author chronicles the faith, hope, and disillusionment of a couple whose time revolve around the contents of a bottle. The engrossing prose is marred unfortunately with an unbelievable twist and dissapointing ending.

"Down There" - The best selection of the entire series, "Down There" is an unforgettable account of a barroom piano man whose days of glory were ended by tragedy. Rendered indifferent to life by his soul-breaking experiences, he meets an equally lost soul and together they encounter adversity supporting each other as only similarly dark-fated individuals can. The heartbreaking ending still haunts me whenever I think about it.

"The Real Cool Killers" - Blaxploitation on speed! The talented Chester Himes vividly conjures this adrenaline yarn of two black detectives taking on the streets of Harlem in no holds barred action. Race, violence, and loathsome scenemakers feverishly grapple in this heat-inducing neon nocturne of urban society. Black humor at one of it's very finest.

Flawed but highly readable, these long forgotten and out of print works have been handsomely restored and given ample tribute by the laudable Library of America. Wanting to familiarize myself with the enduring genre, reading the two vols. of the "Crime Novels" series has been a pleasant introduction and reading experience to me.

More Noir.......2002-01-15

This book is the second volume in the Library of America set on American crime noir. I enjoyed the first volume so much that I decided to read the second one during Christmas break. Once again, the LOA has done a nice job of collecting a fine series of stories. These stories were written during the 1950's and 1960's. The book is nice to look at too; it's covered in red cloth with a cloth bookmark.

The first story is from the demented mind of Jim Thompson. This story, called The Killer Inside Me, is much better than The Grifters, a book by Thompson that I read some time ago. The Grifters seemed to be pretty one-dimensional with respect to its characters. This story is the exact opposite. A deputy sheriff in a Texas city has a terrible secret. He plays dumb on the outside, but inside he is a cunning sociopath. A long simmering resentment leads to a terrible revenge. Bodies quickly stack up as a result. This seems to be the story that Thompson is best known for and it's no surprise why. This is a dark, twisted tale with a grim ending.

Patricia Highsmith wrote a whole series of stories concerning Tom Ripley. The one included here is The Talented Mr. Ripley, probably better known due to the recent film with Matt Damon. This tale isn't as noir as I would have liked, but it still has enough twists and turns to keep anybody in suspense. Ripley is a low class conniver who ingratiates himself into a wealthy family who wants him to go to Italy and bring back their son. Ripley sees the potential for bucks and meets up with the kid and his lady friend. Of course, things take a turn for the worse and the bodies start stacking up. This story was probably my least favorite out of the entire collection.

The next story, Pick-Up, by Charles Willeford, is a depressing tale about two alcoholics who go bump in the night. The story follows the adventures of this alcoholic couple as they attempt suicide, check themselves into a mental hospital, and drink themselves into a stupor. After the female half of the couple dies in another suicide pact, the story switches to a prison tale. The end is somewhat of a twist, but really doesn't impact the story that much, in my opinion. Again, not really noir as noir can be, but still a fine story that can stand by itself.

Down There, by David Goodis, is a wild ride of a tale. Full of suspense and death, this is a great story that deserves to be included here. A family of ne'er-do-wells drags their talented piano-playing brother into their personal problems. The background information on Eddie, the piano player, is phenomenal. The tragedy that has struck him once is bound to repeat itself again. This story has great bit characters that really liven up the background.

The final story, by Chester Himes, is The Real Cool Killers. This is noir on acid: pornographic violence, massive doses of grim reality, and characters you're glad to see get killed. The story is set in Harlem and involves two tough cops named Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. Someone kills a white guy in Harlem and the cops try and track them down. This story contains one of the funniest descriptions of a person falling off a balcony that I've ever read (and I've read a few, disturbingly enough). The writing has enough similes and metaphors to give Raymond Chandler an apoplectic fit. A cool story that certainly deserves a place in this book.

If you like noir, read these two LOA novels. They are long (together they're almost 2000 pages) but it is definitely worth the effort. These kinds of stories are just a great way to while away some free time and relieve stress.

This is a Great Collection.......2001-05-09

I usually don't like genre fiction, but this book is a great collection of "Noir" novels. Film buffs will be particularly interested in reading the novel on which "Shoot the Piano Player" was based, as well as the first "Mr. Ripley" novel (much nastier and darker than the recent film). Most highly recommended.

Great Collection, Attractively Packaged.......2000-07-08

This is a fine collection of crime novels in a durable, easy to read format. It starts off great with "The Killer Inside Me", the all time best trip through a killer's mind. The selections by Highsmith and Goodis, while not as intense as "Killer", are just as good in their own quieter ways. The only novel I would have left out is "Pickup"; while I like Willeford I think this is one of his more leaden performances. I also have a quibble with the volume's title, as the word "noir" has been beaten to death and doesn't tell us much about most of these books. "The Talented Mr. Ripley" owes more to Henry James than to Raymond Chandler, and "Killer" doesn't feature any dark city streets. Quibbles aside, however, the book is well worth buying.

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The Talented Patricia Highsmith
BOOK PLOT CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS
Ripley: a dangerous Individual
He could be your next door neighbour
Totally Unbeleivable

The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
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ASIN: 0679742298
Release Date: 1992-09-01

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One of the great crime novels of the 20th century, Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley is a blend of the narrative subtlety of Henry James and the self-reflexive irony of Vladimir Nabokov. Like the best modernist fiction, Ripley works on two levels. First, it is the story of a young man, Tom Ripley, whose nihilistic tendencies lead him on a deadly passage across Europe. On another level, the novel is a commentary on fictionmaking and techniques of narrative persuasion. Like Humbert Humbert, Tom Ripley seduces readers into empathizing with him even as his actions defy all moral standards.

The novel begins with a play on James's The Ambassadors. Tom Ripley is chosen by the wealthy Herbert Greenleaf to retrieve Greenleaf's son, Dickie, from his overlong sojourn in Italy. Dickie, it seems, is held captive both by the Mediterranean climate and the attractions of his female companion, but Mr. Greenleaf needs him back in New York to help with the family business. With an allowance and a new purpose, Tom leaves behind his dismal city apartment to begin his career as a return escort. But Tom, too, is captivated by Italy. He is also taken with the life and looks of Dickie Greenleaf. He insinuates himself into Dickie's world and soon finds that his passion for a lifestyle of wealth and sophistication transcends moral compunction. Tom will become Dickie Greenleaf--at all costs.

Unlike many modernist experiments, The Talented Mr. Ripley is eminently readable and is driven by a gripping chase narrative that chronicles each of Tom's calculated maneuvers of self-preservation. Highsmith was in peak form with this novel, and her ability to enter the mind of a sociopath and view the world through his disturbingly amoral eyes is a model that has spawned such latter-day serial killers as Hannibal Lecter. --Patrick O'Kelley

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In a chilling literary hall of mirrors, Patricia Highsmith introduces Tom Ripley. Like a hero in a latter-day Henry James novel, is sent to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young American back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself very fond of Dickie Greenleaf. He wants to be like him--exactly like him. Suave, agreeable, and utterly amoral, Ripley stops at nothing--certainly not only one murder--to accomplish his goal. Turning the mystery form inside out, Highsmith shows the terrifying abilities afforded to a man unhindered by the concept of evil.

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The Talented Patricia Highsmith .......2007-07-27

The Talented Mr. Repley's Story is known for everyone. Almost. So what I am reviewing here is not the story but the dazzling and inruiging content.

I read this fabulous book ong ago, and I love more than the movie, although movie is put out in first class cinematography and actor and directing delivery. Books are better for imagination and consideration. In the movie hall there are two many other things going on and the time is not enough to discribe and oak tree like in a book.

The Talented Mr.s Reply is always puzzling my own beliefs, still also managing to satisfy my own belifs as well. The paradox of life and being human. The paradox of wanting and expecting verses lose one self's identitiy. Every thing tom did was to caress what he thought he had accomplished while he has never gotten it in the first place. Fascination and infatuation with things we don't posses or have really experience has become our greatest depression. To me Dickie is a very stable person. He lived life as it was given to him. Tom is the ordinary human always wanting more and sometimes taking it a little too far to satisfy what has become under its spell.

I know a lot will disagree with me and I am sorry i haven';t exactly talked about the content of the book.

a great book, read it and keep it.

BOOK PLOT CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS.......2007-02-06

THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY is about Tom Ripley, a strange, unhappy young man living in New York. From the beginning, we sense that there is something off about Tom, though it isn't until later on that we can begin to guess. He is persuaded by the wealthy business tycoon Herbert Greenleaf to go to Italy to persuade Greenleaf's son, Richard (Dickie) to come home and assume his family's responsibilities, while Greenleaf finances his voyage and expenses. Tom views the voyage as a chance to start over, and accepts. When Tom arrives in Italy, he is immediately taken by the generous, free-spirited Dickie and develops a quick hate for his the woman living with him, Marge Sherwood. The nature of their relationship is ambigiuos, but Marge's unrequited love for Dickie does not escape the watchful Tom. While Tom grows very popular with Dickie, Marge becomes very suspicious, and leads Dickie to question the nature of Tom's feelings toward him. Tom's desperate need to be liked by Dickie, whose independence he idolizes, leads to desperate feelings of rejection when Dickie begins to realize the strangeness of Tom's character. Full with contempt, Tom plans to kill Dickie on the train to San Remo, on their goodbye trip, and does so in a boat. He soon assumes Dickie's identity, writing to Marge and the elder Greenleafs and living Dickie's life, the life he wished he had. But soon the murder of the American and good friend of Dickie, Freddie Miles, leads the Italian police to "Richard Greenleaf". Tom has to navigate his way in and out of the police, while switching identities, and is forced to choose who he will ultimately become, and how far he will take his scheme.

Ripley: a dangerous Individual.......2007-01-29

It has been quite a few years since cracking this novel's covers once again. After seeing the excellent film adaptation with Matt Damon as the infamous Mr. Ripley, returning to the novel had been at the top of the list. As the "must read" pile slowly diminished, Highsmith's novel appeared and have read it with the same pleasure and suspense as the first encounter. This is a great `classic' in the truest sense of the word.

Having read all five novel's in the series, the first instalment is without question the best of the lot...a close second would have to be Ripley Underground and interestingly, the last novel of the series, The Boy Who followed Ripley. Let's face the fact that all of the novels are exceptional pieces of crime fiction, introducing the first schizophrenic murderer, a serial killer with a likable and charming personality. In the crime genre, at least, Tom Ripley is the anti-hero that everybody loves and wants to succeed despite his ruthless machinations to achieve his goals. In crime fiction, this was original, and never really has been duplicated since.

At the start of this novel, the reader recognizes that Ripley is a tad on the criminal side, engaging in tax fraud, realizing he would never cash the embezzled checks; he merely does it for the challenge and thrill. He's asked to go over seas to persuade a certain Dicky Greenleaf to come back to the States and join his family. Father Greenleaf pays all of Ripley's expenses and he travels abroad to the beautiful town of Mongibello, Italy. One incident leads to another; Dicky rejects Ripley's friendship over a frumpy girl, Marge, and, out of the blue, Tom murders him on a small motor boat with the end of a wooden oar. This murder is savage and brutal but effective, though Ripley's conscience is clear as he becomes Dicky Greenleaf, assuming Dickies identity with frightening skill.

What makes this story unique and compelling is Highsmith's writing, narrating the tale in the third person but from Ripley's perspective only, and giving us a glimpse into the mind of a sociopath and ruthless killer.

To be fair, Tom Ripley is indeed a likable character, an individual of good taste in art, food and anything of beauty. He teaches himself Italian, French and later German to ensure his schemes come off without a hitch. In the later novels, he has acquired a magnificent French mansion, filled with original art and co-habituating with a beautiful and rich young woman. He also, in the later novels becomes an expert gardener, spending hours on his lavish property. We really like this man but, be aware, because he turns and kills, without a second thought, when it suits his plans or thwarts his carefully laid out schemes. Never get in this man's way.

Ripley is a dangerous individual, a man who views the world in a much different way than the rest of us. Although a true psychopath, Highsmith has made the reader like the guy, hoping, for some reason, that he gets away with whatever crime he's committing... very strange, original and terribly seductive.

If you have not read Highsmith before, read the Ripley series, particularly The Talented Mr. Ripley, and if you are hooked, the novels can be read over again through the years because, like all true art, these novels are timeless.

He could be your next door neighbour.......2007-01-22

The Talented Mr. Ripley is the best fictional representation of a sociopath that I have ever encountered. This book does a great job of showing how the sociopathic mind works and preys on normal people. It really is a case of a wolf that looks like a sheep being loose in a crowded pasture. Patricia Highsmith was familiar to me through her wonderful, dark, disturbing and offbeat short stories such as The Snail-Watcher, The Day of Reckoning, and The Terrapin. This was the first of her many novels that I have read and I am certainly planning to read others in the future. I had seen an excellent movie version of Ripley's Game called The American Friend (Wim Wenders, director) and so was interested in the Ripley character. All of the characters in this novel are entirely believable, if not particularly sympathetic. The European locations are nicely described. A curious effect, that I imagine is a sign of a good writer, is that I found myself hoping that Ripley would somehow pull through his excruciating fixes even though I knew he should be caught and punished. By the end of the book, I also found myself identifying with him in some of his ungenerous and extravagant views of his fellow human beings. Strange.

Totally Unbeleivable.......2006-09-08

The reason I did not give this a lower rating is because the premise is good. The story in a nutshell is Tom Ripley is sent to Europe to try to convince Dickie Greenleaf to come home. He winds up wanting to be Dickie and assumes Dickie's identity. Tom noticed that there is a resemblance between Dickie and himself. It seemed strange to me that Dickie's parents did not notice the resemblance, nor did Dickie, nor his girlfriend, nor any of Dickie's other friends.

When Tom assumes Dickie's identity he lightens his hair (Dickie was blond), gains a few pounds, and dresses like Dickie. He is living in a place where Dickie is not known. This is quite plausible. However, one of Dickie's friends tracks him down and calls him on the phone. The friend is not able to tell it is not Dickie. Yet, when Dickie's girlfriend calls the number she recognizes Tom's voice immediatley. Meanwhile, Tom is writng letters as Dickie to Dickie's parents and Dickie's girlfriend. Grant they are typewritten. Mind you he has only know Dickie for a few months. No one seems to notice that something is not right. This is a stretch; but it is plausible.

Things start getting totally unbeleivable when Tom gives Dickie's passport as identification to a police officer. I know passport photos are bad; however, this is part of a murder investigation. Then when the real Dickie Greenleaf photograph get splashed across all the newspapers no one not even the police notice that the person in the photographs is not the same person they have known.

Finally, a bank suspects that Dickie's signature are forgeries. At this point Tom goes back to being Tom. He lightens his hair, tries to loose the extra pounds he put on to be Dickies, starts to dress sloppily and moves to another town. A photograph of Tom as Tom get published in the papers and again of course no one notices that this is the man that was posing as Dickie.

To top it all of Tom sent a type forged copy of Dickie's will to Dickie's parents with no witness signature. They accept it without wanting to see the original (at the very least it could be checked for fingerprints) and make arrangements for the will to be executed.

There are other things in the book that stretch the limit of plausibility. The premise was very good and the psychological profile of Tom was good. Everything else just didn't add up.

The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game (Everyman's Library)

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"Don't Wait for the Movie!"
(three and a half stars) The first is the best
existential insight into a troubled mind
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Brilliant Characters, Philosphical Questions and Great Plots

The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game (Everyman's Library)
Patricia Highsmith
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ASIN: 0375407928
Release Date: 1999-10-12

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Penzler Pick, February 2000: Astonishingly unappreciated in America in her lifetime, Patricia Highsmith has suddenly become a hot writer, four years after her death. This has been aided in no small part by the theatrical release of The Talented Mr. Ripley, with its cast of attractive young people. The success of the film has induced readers to try the book--not uncommon for popular movie adaptations--and then to look for other books by her as well. This excellent trilogy of the first three (of five) adventures of the utterly amoral Ripley helps fill that need.

In spite of being a bestselling writer in Germany, France, Austria, and other European countries, and in spite of the great fame accorded her first novel, Strangers on a Train, and the film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock, Highsmith enjoyed no success in her native America, and she became an expatriate, living virtually all of her adult life in Europe.

The first of the Ripley novels is The Talented Mr. Ripley, in which the ne'er-do-well Tom Ripley commits murder and assumes the identity of his wealthy friend. In Ripley Underground, he is in danger of being discovered to have defrauded a large company out of a fortune, which could cost him his wealthy wife. In Ripley's Game, a casual snub causes Tom to concoct a scheme involving several murders, the Mafia, and a great deal of money.

These superbly crafted tales about the unfailingly charming but entirely reprehensible criminal are irresistible, much like watching Mike Tyson in a boxing ring (or out of it, for that matter). You know it's wrong to be titillated by it, and you feel guilty about enjoying the spectacle, but it's impossible to avert the eyes. --Otto Penzler

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Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre appear here together in hardcover for the first time.

Suave, agreeable, and completely amoral, Patricia Highsmith's hero, the inimitable Tom Ripley, stops at nothing--not even murder-- to accomplish his goals. In achieving for himself the opulent life that he was denied as a child, Ripley shows himself to be a master of illusion and manipulation and a disturbingly sympathetic combination of genius and psychopath. As Highsmith navigates the mesmerizing tangle of Ripley's deadly and sinister games, she turns the mystery genre inside out and takes us into the mind of a man utterly indifferent to evil.

The Talented Mr. Ripley
In a chilling literary hall of mirrors, Patricia Highsmith introduces Tom Ripley. Like a hero in a latter-day Henry James novel, is sent to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young American back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself very fond of Dickie Greenleaf. He wants to be like him--exactly like him. Suave, agreeable, and utterly amoral, Ripley stops at nothing--certainly not only one murder--to accomplish his goal. Turning the mystery form inside out, Highsmith shows the terrifying abilities afforded to a man unhindered by the concept of evil.

Ripley Under Ground
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's Game
Connoisseur of art, harpsichord aficionado, gardener extraordinaire, and genius of improvisational murder, the inimitable Tom Ripley finds his complacency shaken when he is scorned at a posh gala. While an ordinary psychopath might repay the insult with some mild act of retribution, what Ripley has in mind is far more subtle, and infinitely more sinister. A social slight doesn't warrant murder of course-- just a chain of events that may lead to it.

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"Don't Wait for the Movie!".......2007-08-01

I disagree with some evaluations of the Ripley novels that say something to the effect of: "The creepy Ripley crawls under your skin and haunts your dreams at night!" These characterizations are somewhat silly and exaggerated. Highsmith creates an intriguing character, to be sure. But this is not a terrifying, creepy, or frightening series of crime novels. In fact, there is a notable lack of dramatic tension in these novels, particularly the last two.

Ripley is a young man with problems who gets caught up in a cycle of murder and deception. He is to blame, of course, and Ripley is troubled, for sure. However, to walk in the shoes of Tom Ripley is to understand the unique brew of social, psychological, intellectual, and emotional forces that lead Tom into murder. Of course, understanding how these forces interact within the psyche of Tom is best left to reading Highsmith. However, I would sum up Ripley by saying that he is an intelligent, efficient and inward character who, despite his violent crimes, is still very relatable in a sinister way.

On a more philosophical and ethical tone it is of note that the Ripley character is one of contrast and also marked development. For instance, in the earlier Ripley we find someone that despises murder and yet still justifies it all easily enough in light of his circumstances. The later Ripley seems much more emotionally/psychologically at ease with murder - he can eat or laugh immediately following the act - yet he seems to recognize that while some murders may have been "necessary" the original sin (the first murder of Dickie) was an act of volition in his own self-interest. There is a reversal here: The later Ripley is more capable of murder, yet finds less justification in his original sin. This is intriguing, and I think it parallels the Genesis account of partaking of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Ripley's eyes are opened to a new moral dimension, and he can never go back to his age of innocence.

Comparison with the Matt Damon movie, The Talented Mr. Ripley:
In the case of the Ripley novel there are some notable departures in the character development of Ripley and Dickie Greenleaf that make the movie perhaps a bit more appealing. For one thing, Highsmith's Dickie character is much more static in the novel, while in the movie they deliberately sought out Jude Law to make the Dickie character alive and dynamic. Even the main character, Ripley, is a bit more complex in the movie. He is battling insecurity on many levels and additionally they introduce a homosexual element, while in the novel Ripley is seen as somewhat asexual - at least in the first novel (The Talented Mr. Ripley). In this sense Matt Damon may have created a Ripley who is even more multi-layered than Highsmith. The result of the differences in character development is that the interaction between Dickie and Ripley is more central in the movie and a more focal point of intrigue. The novel, on the other hand, is more focussed on Ripley's inner world and his ability to navigate through two murders.

For the ultimate Ripley experience I recommend both the books and the move. For me the Ripley from the novel and the Ripley from the movie kind of morph and mesh together to form a character of interest and intrigue. Which Ripley is the real Ripley?!!? Let your own imagination decide.

(three and a half stars) The first is the best.......2007-05-25

After seeing "The Talented Mr. Ripley" with Matt Damon, I was interested in learning more about this intriguing character, so I bought this single volume containing Patricia Highsmith's first three Ripley novels (which I understand are much better than the Ripley sequels number four and five). While I can't say, as other reviewers do, that I loved it, it was a worthwhile read, with the first novel being the best. After that, Ripley, while remaining true to his amoral self, becomes too self-confident and domestic for my taste. I probably would have stopped after the second novel if I hadn't bought the trilogy.

Anyway, I've recently reviewed all three novels, which I figured I'd just "cut and paste" here:

The Talented Mr. Ripley -- 4 stars:

Thomas Ripley is approached by Mr. Greenleaf, a successful business man, who asks Tom to travel to a small coastal village in Italy, for the purpose of convincing his son Dickie to return and join the family business. When Tom, financed by Mr. Greenleaf, travels to Italy and meets Dickie (whom he soon befriends and moves in with), he sees what he has always dreamed of being: someone who lives a life of leisure, never works, with no money worries. Tom -- who's probably bisexual -- more than falls in love with Dickie, he actually wants to absorb his friend's persona and become him. He realizes that because of a stronger than passing resemblance, plus prodigious impersonation talents (which include forgery), he can become more and more like Dickie; but he eventually comes to the conclusion, in his typical amoral fashion, that he has to get rid of Dickie in order to truly live the life he wants. The third main character in the book, Marge, is in love with Dickie and jealous of Tom, but never truly understands Tom's complete obsession.

If one has seen the movie, one cannot help but picture Matt Damon, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow (whose "Marge" has a stronger personality than the one in the book)in these roles. I didn't mind that, and could appreciate Patricia Highsmith's taut writing skills and ability to make the reader feel repulsed and sympathetic of Tom simultaneously. Sometimes I found myself routing for Tom, but most of the time I wanted him to get caught. My biggest problem with the book is that I couldn't accept how incompetent the Italian police were. One of the basic principles of a murder investigation is to follow the money trail -- which would lead even the most bumbling investigator to Tom. I doubt that even in the 1950's one could so easily impersonate someone else and get away with it. (The same can be said for "Ripley Under Ground," the next book in the Ripley series, but to an even greater degree).

Although certainly with its flaws, "The Talented Mr. Ripley," delivers as a riveting read about a disturbed but clever man who will stop at nothing to obtain his goals.
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Ripley Under Ground -- 3 stars

Several years after he murdered Dickie Greenleaf and went through the events described in "The Talented Mr. Ripley," we now find a more domesticated Tom Ripley living as a man of leisure in a beautiful old country house with a lovely garden in France, with his young, blond French wife Heloise. Tom, living on the money that Dickie "left" to him (in a fake will drawn up by Tom himself after he murdered Dickie), plus his wife's family's generous allowance, supplements his income (and adds some excitment to a rather staid life) by having a stake in a bogus art dealership that sells paintings from the mysterious Derwatt. Unbeknownst to the general public, Derwatt actually committed suicide years before, and the new Derwatt paintings are being painted by Bernard Tufts, a secret business partner of Tom, who's an expert counterfeiter of Derwatt's art. But what's one to do when this fraudalent scheme is discovered by an avid Derwatt fan?

Though Ripley is now older, wiser and more circumspect than he was in the prior novel, he hasn't changed at all in one respect: he will not let anything or anyone stand in the way of his blissful existence, even if he has to lie, cheat and murder. Still a master of imitation, Ripley also has to assume the role of different persona, including that of Derwatt himself, in order to get away with his various crimes.

The problem I had with "Ripley Under Ground," was the same thing I had with "The Talented Mr. Ripley," but even more so. I couldn't help but roll my eyes at how many times Ripley was able to convince the police (here both French and British, as opposed to Italian in the prior Ripley novel) of his complete innocence and non-involvement with the shakiest of alibis and under the deepest suspicion. Ripley explains that he's just unlucky in that people who were last seem with him happen to disappear, and presumably well trained detectives astonishingly accept this after the most cursory of investigation.

What was most frustrating to me is that all the police had to do to figure out the Derwatt ruse, and Ripley's involvement in it, was to follow the money trail. His colleagues at the Derwatt gallery explained that they had no idea where Derwatt lived or how they could locate him. Wouldn't following the money trail be the first thing one would do if someone who's alleging counterfeit paintings was murdered? This avenue of investigation would have led to the discovery of Ripley's involvement in the enterprise, and his entire story would have collapsed like a house of cards.

In short, if you liked "The Talented Mr. Ripley," it's probably worth your while to read "Ripley Under Ground." But the problems of the first Ripley novel are magnified here.
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Ripley's Game -- 3 stars

Since I purchased a single volume which included the trilogy "The Talented Mr. Ripley," "Ripley Under Ground," and "Ripley's Game," I felt compelled to read the last installment, even though I probably would have stopped with the second one if purchased one at a time. Alas, "Ripley's Game" didn't thrill me. Sure, we still have the compelling main character who, like a toned down (non-cannabilistic) Hannibal Lechter, wonders whether his wine is properly chilled or how to play a Bach sonata on his newly purchased harpischord right before he bludgeons an enemy's head with a heavy stick. Here, his murderous choices aren't nearly so repugnant as in the two earlier Ripley novels, since those he kills are members of the Italian Mafia.

In fact, the central character of "Ripley's Game" is not Thomas Ripley at all, but Jonathan Trevanny, dying of a fatal blood disease, who sets aside his morals and agrees to murder members of the Mafia for money (paid by Reeves, a "colleague" of Ripley whom we've met before), so that a war might be started amongst the Mafia families. Honestly, as a fan of "The Sopranos," it seemed at times that Highsmith's portrayal of the mob was nothing short of naive and pedestrian. The fight/murder scenes have an odd flatness to them, and are certainly not one of Highsmith's stronger points.

One thing which kind of bothered me was that Ripley's comments to a character named Gauthier - that Trevanny had taken a turn for the worst -supposedly sets certain key events in motion. In fact (and I re-read this part to make sure), it was Gauthier who told Ripley about Trevanny's illness in the first place.

In any event, the character of Thomas Ripley is certainly an intriguing one, and though I'm probably not going to read the two subsequent Ripley novels, someday I'll rent the two movies based on "Ripley's Game."

existential insight into a troubled mind.......2006-07-31

Loved the three books contained in this volume. Engrossing stories about a man with a troubled mind who lives a very pleasant and noremal life, ... except for a few excursions into murder. The hero is the villan, an unusual twist to the thriller mystery novel.

Sorry but no...........2006-01-10

I didn't like this trilogy. I have to confess i bought it after watching the movie based on the first book.In my opinion this is one of the very few cases when the movie is better than the book. the story is just not as intense as it is in the movie, Tom's fascination with Dickie is more implicit in the book. Maybe because of the time it was written? In the book Tom dislikes "queers", in the movie he seems to be one of them.
About the second and third books... Tom helping this pseu-do english painter who feels guilty about forging the works of a long time dead artist... why does he get involved in the first place? He has a beautiful house in France, he is married to a rich blonde Frenchwoman, why risk it all again? I guess he just has a passion for complicated lives...And later he gets involved in the German mafia, corrupting a cancer patient. The last book is way over the top, specially all the shooting in the last chapters... I guess you have to be a crime fiction fanatic to appreciate Patricia Highsmith's unrealistic plots...

Brilliant Characters, Philosphical Questions and Great Plots.......2004-10-26

The character development of Tom Ripley is what makes The Talented Mr. Ripley one of the great crime novels of the 20th century. Ms. Highsmith is an acute observer and is able to translate her sensitivity into a multidimensional portrait of a successful criminal in a way that is virtually unmatched. One of the most astonishing qualities of this book is that you will find yourself pulling for Ripley, even though he is as amoral a character as you will read about.

Ripley is an immensely capable man who floats like a newly cut wood chip on the surging tides of life, always buoyant regardless of the circumstances. He is extremely impulsive. He also has so little invested in who he is that he can even be happier pretending to be someone else. He is also unattached to the world's judgments. Solitude suits him well.

The story opens as the father of a casual acquaintance tracks Ripley down. The father wants to persuade his son to return from Italy to take up a career in the family business. Through this contact, Ripley finds himself sent off to Europe as a paid emissary. Once there, Ripley makes no headway but does develop a friendship with his casual acquaintance before strains start to develop. What follows is one of the most interesting and intricate plot lines that it will ever be your pleasure to read.

The book's largest theme is about identity. Who are we really? Can we be someone different from whom we seem to be? How do we misjudge one another? I don't remember any other crime novel that explores such subtle questions so well.

I recently reread this novel for the third time. I found depths in the themes and story telling that I had missed before. Even if you have read it before, I suggest you do so again. If you haven't read any of the Ripley novels, you have a great treat ahead of you.

The next book in the series is Ripley under Ground which suffers in comparison with The Talented Mr. Ripley. By comparison, Ripley Under Ground could be renamed Ripley in Slow Motion with a Yawn. Character development is much less in this book and the plot is much less intricate and exciting.

As the book opens, we find that the sexually neuter Ripley from The Talented Mr. Ripley has turned into a married Ripley who has a wealthy wife on vacation in Greece. A scam that Ripley started before he married and after The Talented Mr. Ripley has come back to haunt him. Ripley had helped set up a ring to forge portraits by a dead artist and to pretend the artist is still alive. A collector is challenging the authenticity of a painting he bought which is a forgery. Ripley decides to come to London to impersonate the artist. But that doesn't work so Ripley has to find some new method to solve the problem.

One of the weakest elements in this book is the heavy use of impersonations. It's just too much to be credible. That was the weakest part of The Talented Mr. Ripley, but here Ms. Highsmith goes off the deep end in that regard.

I did like the little character development that occurred. Ripley starts to develop some feelings for other people, even if they are not deep ones. He's not quite the amoral monster he was before, but he certainly looks out for number one first. He also starts to trust others for the first time.

The premise for Ripley's Game, the third book in the series, is the most interesting of the three: How will a dying man look at morality when he knows his days are numbered? Ripley's Game has a second advantage over The Talented Mr. Ripley and Ripley Under Ground, there are no plot devices where Ripley fools the same person over and over again with alternate disguises. Another advantage over Ripley Under Ground is that Ms. Highsmith has a new character who can be totally developed in his many complex facets.

As the book opens, Tom Ripley's criminal friend Reeves has come up with an implausible idea -- encourage the Italian mafia to run itself out of Hamburg by starting a war between rival families. To do this, Reeves needs an untraceable, innocent-looking killer who will quickly disappear. Reeves spots the possible targets, but cannot think of anyone to do the killings. Although Ripley has nothing at stake, the problem intrigues Tom. He remembers a local owner of a framing shop, Jonathan Trevanny, who has an advanced case of incurable leukemia. How might making the man afraid of dying sooner affect his willingness to kill? The story proceeds from there with many twists and turns that are more realistic than in The Talented Mr. Ripley or Ripley Under Ground. Before the book is over, you learn a lot about how people create their own situational morality. You will find yourself surprised by the reactions of Ripley, Trevanny and Trevanny's wife. It makes for very interesting reading. I especially enjoyed seeing Ms. Highsmith go back to do more with developing new dimensions of Ripley's character.

The book's main problem with the book is that it usually moves at the wrong pace. The leisurely, untroubled sections are developed at about the same pace as the dangerous action sections are. As a result, the book feels like Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is being played at the exact same average tempo throughout. The contrasts don't work as well with such an approach. In addition, the leisurely parts are too fast and the action parts are too slow.

After you finish this book, take time to honestly think about what you would do if you had been Trevanny. It makes for a series of fascinating speculations to consider.

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A window into a disturbed amoral mind
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The Talented Mr.Ripley
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The Talented Mr.Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
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A window into a disturbed amoral mind.......2007-05-02

Thomas Ripley is approached by Mr. Greenleaf, a successful business man, who asks Tom to travel to a small coastal village in Italy, for the purpose of convincing his son Dickie to return and join the family business. When Tom, financed by Mr. Greenleaf, travels to Italy and meets Dickie (whom he soon befriends and moves in with), he sees what he has always dreamed of being: someone who lives a life of leisure, never works, with no money worries. Tom -- who's probably bisexual -- more than falls in love with Dickie, he actually wants to absorb his friend's persona and become him. He realizes that because of a stronger than passing resemblance, plus prodigious impersonation talents (which include forgery), he can become more and more like Dickie; but he eventually comes to the conclusion, in his typical amoral fashion, that he has to get rid of Dickie in order to truly live the life he wants. The third main character in the book, Marge, is in love with Dickie and jealous of Tom, but never truly understands Tom's complete obsession.

If one has seen the movie, one cannot help but picture Matt Damon, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow (whose "Marge" has a stronger personality than the one in the book)in these roles. I didn't mind that, and could appreciate Patricia Highsmith's taut writing skills and ability to make the reader feel repulsed and sympathetic of Tom simultaneously. Sometimes I found myself routing for Tom, but most of the time I wanted him to get caught. My biggest problem with the book is that I couldn't accept how incompetent the Italian police were. One of the basic principles of a murder investigation is to follow the money trail -- which would lead even the most bumbling investigator to Tom. I doubt that even in the 1950's one could so easily impersonate someone else and get away with it. (The same can be said for "Ripley Under Ground," the next book in the Ripley series, but to an even greater degree).

Although certainly with its flaws, "The Talented Mr. Ripley," delivers as a riveting read about a disturbed but clever man who will stop at nothing to obtain his goals.

Dated?.......2007-04-02

I got about half way into the book then had to put it down. Tom Ripley is neither engaging, nor sympathetic, nor clever. Plus, with DNA evidence, the plot got lost on me.

The Talented Mr.Ripley.......2006-05-29

The first book I read in trimester one was the Talented Mr. Ripley written by Patricia Highsmith. The main conflict in the book was Mr. Ripley trying to get Dickie home from Rome back to his parents. While this is going on a lot of other stuff is happening too.
I really enjoyed this book. The book was very exciting to read because you never knew what was going to happen next. I was able to feel in the book because everything seemed so real. I could also make many connections to the book. The main conflict of the book was very interesting. You never knew what was going to happen and everything was fast paced and action packed. Every time I would predict what was going to happen I was always wrong and something better happened. I think that the characters seemed very realistic in the book because they faced very similar problems that people face everyday. The book's ending was very satisfying. If the book would have ended any other way it would not have been as good.
The author's voice in the story was narrative. She was the one telling the story. The author used vocabulary in a very interesting way. She used some very hard words, and she used some Britain words like ajar. I think that the author has a very unique way of writing. I like how she uses her vocabulary a lot. I think it is unique that she uses Britain and English in the same text. I also thought she was very unique how she explained parts of the book. She wouldn't say a lot but you would definitely have enough information to understand what she explained and you would have a good idea of it. The author used dialogue perfect in the book, she didn't have too much of it that you were bored out of your mind. She used enough to let you understand the part in the book. I think she is a very good author. I really enjoyed how she wrote her book and I loved reading it. She made the book very good with giving the right amount of details and not making you bored.
I would give this book a ten out of ten. I would give it this rating because it was a really good book and I don't think that there was anything I didn't like about it. I highly recommend this book to people who like books that keep you guessing on every part of the book. I also recommend this book more to guys then girls because I think guys would enjoy the whole entire book better because there is a death in the book.
This was a great book. I really enjoyed reading it and I never wanted to put the book down. I would have to say that this is one of the best books I have ever read, if not it is the best. I think the most amusing part in the book is when someone gets killed on a boat. This was a very exciting part in the book. I am not going to tell who got killed because it would ruin the book for you. If you want to find out who gets killed and the rest of the book go read the book for yourself.

Fictional morality.......2006-02-04

Its a brave or stupid person who enters the world of Patricia Highsmith expecting a few hours of pulp fiction reading, 200 pages of standard and comfortable case solved, bad guy caught style crime writing. Instead, be prepared to find yourself rooting for a character who can kill in cold blood and feel little or no shame so long as he can cover those feelings with the more amenable sensations that italian wine, sunsets and lira can afford. What makes this all the more disturbing is the recogniton that for us to involve ourselves with him, Ripley must be a very human and likeable character. If we see something of ourselves in him, what is it that differentiates us - the fact that he appears to have no conscience, or the fact that he has the talent to convince himself that an appalling act can make the world so much better for him?
Tom Ripley is indeed one of the classic characters in modern fiction, borne from the mind of a talented and unique author. This is the book one should start with in any attempt to explore that mind, but take care!

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The Ultimate Empathic Antihero!

Talented Mr Ripley
Highsmith Patricia
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The Ultimate Empathic Antihero!.......2004-10-24

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Good addition to the film(if you own it). However, this book
the talented mr ripley
A Masterpiece!
There seems to be some confusion
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The Talented Mr. Ripley: A Screenplay
Anthony Minghella , and Patricia Highsmith
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Good addition to the film(if you own it). However, this book.......2000-06-08

would be interesting only to people, who study scripts seriously, who love Minghella's art, and who love the film itself. This particular script was not meant to stand on its own, unlike some scripts from other great films. It was only meant to be Minghella's subjective and brief overview of what he is going to create for the screen. I bought it because I was curious to compare written word with what I have seen on the film. This book has lyrics of "Lullaby for Cain" and full cast list, though, which is a nice touch...

the talented mr ripley.......2000-03-09

The book was better than the movie. I think the movie was too soapy. The ending was not conclusive

A Masterpiece!.......2000-02-11

After seeing this film I was quick to jump to the conclusion that the screenplay would be just as good. I am pleased to report that I was correct!

As a read, Ripley is captivating and diabolical. The words finely link together the voices and faces that I loved in the film. Anthony Minghella has such a remarkable gift! First English Patient, now Ripley!

All I really have to say about this screenplay is that it is honey--rich, sweet, and easy to swallow. You'll love it!

There seems to be some confusion.......2000-01-04

Some people seem to be under the impression that this is a novel that has been adapted from the film, which it is not. This is Anthony Minghella's SCREENPLAY for his film which he adapted from the novel, and it is excellent. As a filmmaker I enjoy reading the screenplays for films that I like and anyone who enjoys reading screenplays will love this because it is a wonderful adaptation that proves the key to a great film is a great script.

Um...........1999-12-30

A novelization of a movie that was based on a book? Does anyone else find this to be an incomprehensible waste of trees? You'd do better to read the original - it's by Patricia Highsmith -, and here's hoping that the author makes no money out of this bizarre endeavor.

Talented Mr.Ripley (Everyman's Library Classics)

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An Off-Center World Where Danger Ever Lurks

Talented Mr.Ripley (Everyman's Library Classics)
Patricia Highsmith
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An Off-Center World Where Danger Ever Lurks.......2007-06-01

"The Talented Mr. Ripley, " published in 1955, first of Patricia Highsmith's series of five Ripley novels, was fairly recently seen as a major motion picture, starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, and Cate Blanchett; the movie was set in beautifully mild southern Italy, as is this book. The movie was much talked about: that's a good thing, if it brings the now half-forgotten Highsmith back to public notice. Because she had one nonstop, wicked imagination. The woman also wrote "Strangers on a Train," on which the famed Alfred Hitchcock movie is based, and published many other novels, and several collections of short stories, some of which still give me the willies.

The book opens as the orphaned Tom Ripley, handsome, charming, and psychopathic, raised in Boston by an uncaring aunt and struggling in New York, has a lucky day. Herbert Greenleaf, a rich shipbuilder of the city, purposefully makes the young man's acquaintance. Mr. Greenleaf greatly exaggerates the closeness of Ripley's slight relationship with his runaway son, Dickie Greenleaf, who's hanging out in Italy, unwilling to come home and into Dad's business. So Mr. Greenleaf sends Ripley to Italy like a latter-day Henry James hero, all expenses paid, to bring back the prodigal son. The financially hard-pressed Ripley, of course, has never been to Europe, let alone Italy, and he's easily seduced by the beauty, the sophistication, the comfort, the wines. He falls in love with the place; also, in a way, with handsome, charming, sophisticated young Dickie, and yearns to be just like him, and live just like him.

Commentators on the recent movie often remarked on the unspoken underlying homoerotic nature of the relationship formed by the two young men at play. So it should come as no surprise that the same underpinning to the relationship is to be found in Highsmith's book. At its opening, Ripley tells us that, when he was a child, his Aunt Dottie, who raised him after his parents' deaths, accused him of being a "sissy," as was his father. Furthermore, bearing in mind that this book was published in 1955, the adult Ripley clearly moves in New York's --covert-- gay community. He's left the East Side town house of a wealthy older man who enjoys taking in handsome young strays, and is crashing with a young decorator of store windows, particularly Third Avenue boutiques. Towards the end of the book, after a lot has been done that can't be undone, Ripley reflects that he did sort of fall in love with handsome, light-hearted, fickle Dickie; and that, had he not been so greedy for a more encompassing relationship, and so impatient about getting to it, things might not have turned out as they did. Indeed.

Highsmith was a sophisticated gal herself, who later in life chose to live in Switzerland with several Siamese cats; her work isn't for everyone. In her books, she frequently chose to reward, not the practitioners of the American virtues, but those who practiced the European vices. If you can accept an off-center world where things may not be what they seem, and danger ever lurks, go find the Ripley series.

Der Talentierte Mr. Ripley (German Audiobook)

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Der Talentierte Mr. Ripley (German Audiobook)
Patricia Highsmith
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Der talentierte Mr. Ripley. Der kleine Gauner Tom Ripley soll Dickie Greenleaf, den Sohn eines reichen Fabrikanten, aus Italien nach Amerika zuruckholen. Er dindet ihn und lernt das suBe Leben kennen. Ihm sollte das schone Geld gehoren!Ripley erkennt seine Chance. Er laBt Dickie verschwinden und beginnt ein raffliniertes Doppelspiel. Patricia Highsmith 1921-1995, gilt als die groBe Lady des Psycho-Thrillers. Sie wurde mit zahlereichen Preisen ausgezeichnet. Ihre Krimis werden millionenfach verkauft. Tom Ripley ist ihre bekannteste Schopfung.

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El Talento De Mr. Ripley

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THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY
PATRICIA HIGSMITH
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