Best Selling Books by Patricia Highsmith

"In a small Pennsylvania town, Robert Forrester is recuperating from a nasty divorce and a bout of psychological trouble. One evening, while driving home, he sees a pretty young woman framed by her bright kitchen window, a picture of happy domesticity that brings him peace. Soon, Robert can''t keep himself away. But when he is inevitably discovered, obsession is turned on its head, and Robert finds himself unable to shake the young woman, nor entirely sure whether he should"--P. [4] of cover.

At the ''small g'', a Zurich bar known for its not exclusively gay clientele, the lives of a small community are played out one summer. Rickie Markwalder is a designer whose lover Petey was brutally murdered. Rickie and his performing dog Lulu are regulars at the bar, as are vindictive Renate, a seamstress, and her teenage apprentice Luisa. Into their lives comes Teddie, impressionable and beautiful, and a catalyst for the series of events that will change everything. Patricia Highsmith''s final novel is an intricate exploration of love and sexuality, the depths of spite and the triumph of human kindness. It is a work that, in the tradition of Shakespeare''s A Midsummer Night''s Dream, shows us how bizarre and unpredictable love can be. Small g, in the words of her biographer Andrew Wilson, is an ''extended fairy tale suggesting that...happiness is precarious and...romance should be embraced.''

The honeymoon is over; the bride dead by her own hand. Ray Garrett, the grieving husband, convinces the police in Rome of his innocence, but not his father-in-law, Ed Coleman, who shoots him at point-blank range and leaves him for dead. Ray survives and follows Coleman to Venice, where the two fall into an eerie game of cat-and-mouse - Coleman obsessed with vengeance and Ray determined to save his reputation, and himself. Each is at once the hunter and the hunted in a tense duel that, as each manages to walk away, draws them nearer to death.

A brilliant collection of stories from the creator of Tom Ripley.

Five gripping plays based on Patricia Highsmith''s bestselling ''Ripley'' series - plus bonus material Charming, cultured and clever, Tom Ripley has a taste for the finer things in life. And he is determined to get them, by any means necessary... These five plays - The Talented Mr Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley''s Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley and Ripley Under Water - chart Tom''s journey from impoverished conman to wealthy bon viveur and serial killer. His homicidal adventures begin when he befriends shipping heir Dickie Greenleaf: he wants money, success, and he''s willing to kill for it. But when he attains the luxurious lifestyle he craves, he is always on the edge of being discovered. Will his shadowy past finally catch up with him? BAFTA-winning actor Ian Hart stars as Ripley in these tense, thrilling dramas. Also included are two bonus documentaries: Looking for Ripley, in which crime writer Mark Billingham unravels the mystery behind our lasting fascination with Tom Ripley, and A Passionate Affair, presented by Marcel Berlins, who asks whether Patricia Highsmith fell in love with her suave, amoral anti-hero. Text © 1993 by Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich, all rights reserved. © 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (p) 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN INTRODUCED BY DENISE MINA ''Highsmith probes to the very core of her heroine with a controlled ferocity and single-mindedness that illuminates every page of her novel'' THE TIMES ''A work of extraordinary force and feeling . . . her strongest, her most imaginative'' NEW YORKER ''One of the mere twenty or so that I would say were perfect, unimprovable masterpieces'' A. N Wilson, DAILY TELEGRAPH Edith Howland''s diary is her most precious possession, and as she is moving house she is making sure it''s safe. A suburban housewife in fifties America, she is moving to Brunswick with her husband Brett and her beloved son, Cliffie, to start a new life for them all. She is optimistic, but most of all she has high hopes for her new venture with Brett, a local newspaper, the Brunswick Corner Bugle. As Edith Howland''s life becomes harsh, her diary entries only become brighter and brighter. Life seems full of promise, and indeed, to read her diary, filled with her most intimate feelings and revelations, you would never think otherwise. Strange, then, that reality is so dangerously different . . .

First published in 1952, "The Price of Salt" is Patricia Highsmith''s unprecedented novel concerning the love affair between two women. Highsmith originally published the novel under the pseudonym "Claire Morgan" out of fear that she might be branded as a writer of lesbian literature and out of respect for the characters and occurrences depicted in the novel which referenced her own real life relationships. The story is concerned with the life of Therese Belivet, a young woman living in Manhattan who aspires to be a theatrical set designer. Despite the fact that she is dating a young man named Richard, Therese feels quite lonely as she does not truly love Richard or enjoy their intimacies. By day she works in the toy department at a New York department store. It is there that she meets Carol, an elegant woman in her early thirties, when she waits on her as a customer. The two soon spark up a friendship which eventually develops into a romantic relationship. Noted for being one of the first novels not to depict lesbian relationships in a completely unfavorable light, "The Price of Salt," or "Carol," as it was also published, has been adapted into a 2015 film which received numerous award nominations. This edition is printed in premium acid-free paper.

"Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Highsmith for the next one hundred years." —Paula Hawkins Just in time for the centennial celebration of groundbreaking noir fiction writer Patricia Highsmith comes a reissue of her propulsive, engrossing debut, Strangers on a Train, with a new introduction by best-selling author Paula Hawkins. Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno are passengers on the same train. Haines is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno a mysterious smooth-talker with a sadistic proposal: he’ll murder Haines’s wife if Haines will murder Bruno’s father. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy finds himself trapped in Highsmith’s perilous world, where, under the right circumstances, ordinary people are capable of extraordinary crimes. The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1951 film, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith’s prolific career, proving her a master at depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday life.

Gentle, generous Theo would tell you that he feels quite logically happy about sharing Lelia with his best friend, Ramón. Although the word ''logical'' troubles him sometimes. (Can love ever be logical?) It is he, at any rate, who eventually finds Lelia dead in her painter''s studio in Mexico City. She has been raped, her handsome face bloodily mutilated. Theo''s thoughts immediately turn to Ramón as the natural suspect: hot tempered, moody, a man whose Catholic soul has already been damned by passion - unable to marry Lelia, unable to give her up . . . A confession is made, but are we to believe it?

The nightmare is only beginning for a wealthy Manhattan couple, the Reynolds, when they receive a note saying that their beloved miniature poodle is being held for ransom.

With Norton''s publication of The Black House, Patricia Highsmith''s entire body of work is now back in print. First published in 1981, this volume is one of Highsmith''s most nuanced and psychologically suspenseful works. The stories in The Black House mine classic Highsmith terrain as they sketch the lives of suburban dwellers that appear quite normal at first but unravel to reveal their proximity to the macabre. This collection is a perfect example of Highsmith''s view of human nature and a fitting capstone to the reintroduction of one of the twentieth century''s greatest writers.

The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with this work that reveals the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life. The stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course are among Highsmith''s most mature, psychologically penetrating works. As in the title story, in which a man''s brush with death endows his everyday desires with tragic consequences, the warm familiarities of middle-class life become the eerie setting for Highsmith''s chilling portrayals of violence, secrecy, and madness.

The last book in the iconic, propulsive RIPLEY series - now a major Netflix series starring Andrew Scott. *** ''The Ripley books are marvellously, insanely readable'' THE TIMES ''What whitens your knuckles as you read is the game Ripley plays, his ploys and dodges'' SUNDAY TIMES ''Ripley is back, as polite and lethal as ever'' TIME OUT Tom Ripley is quietly living in luxury at his chateau at Villeperce. Tom Ripley passes his leisured days tending the dahlias, practicing the harpsichord and enjoying the company of his lovely wife, Heloise. Never mind the bloodstains on the basement floor. He has a past, however, that would not bear too much close scrutiny. He is certain that he has covered his tracks where murder and forgery are concerned. But when a certain American couple move in next door, he soon realises his every move is being shadowed. When menacing coincidences begin to occur, a spiralling contest of sinister hints and mutual terrorism ensues, resulting in one of Patricia Highsmith''s most elegantly harrowing novels to date. Ripley fears his secrets may be discovered and he will stop at nothing to prevent that from happening . . . ''The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer'' THE TIMES

The Tremor of Forgery is considered by many to be Patricia Highsmith''s finest novel. Set in Tunisia in the mid-1960s, it 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 towards Ina, the girlfriend he left behind in New York, but his feelings start to change when she doesn''t answer his increasingly aggravated letters, and John Castlewood, the filmmaker who hired Ingham, fails to show in Tunisia. Amid the tea shops and alleys of the souk, the sun-blasted architecture, and the beaches and hotels frequented by international tourists, will Ingham''s morality survive the withering heat? Includes an introduction by Francine Prose.

Comment assassiner deux mafiosi sans se salir les mains ? Pour rendre ce service à un ami, Tom Ripley a besoin d''un homme au-dessus de tout soupçon et disposé à se charger de la besogne. Jonathan Trevanny, pauvre et honnête père de famille, atteint de leucémie, pourrait être celui-là, et il accepterait afin de laisser aux siens une coquette somme d''argent... Et le voilà, hésitant mais tenté, aux mains du séduisant et diabolique Ripley, qui sait comment faire naître la corruption et le meurtre chez un être hanté par sa mort prochaine. Troisième roman consacré par Patricia Highsmith à son inquiétant héros, Ripley s''amuse a été porté à l''écran, en 1977, par Wim Wenders sous le titre L''Ami américain.

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THE PRICE OF SALT (1952) is a romance novel by Patricia Highsmith, written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The author - known as a suspense writer following the publication of her previous book, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN - became notorious due to the story''s latent lesbian content and happy ending, the latter having been unprecedented in homosexual fiction. THE PRICE OF SALT was an inspiration for Nabokov''s LOLITA.

Ripley wants out - he wants money, success, the good life, and to get it he is prepared to lie, cheat and kill.

The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with this work that reveals the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life.

La suite me plut encore davantage : " Une idée formidable ! Supposez que chacun de nous tue pour le compte de l''autre ? Nous nous sommes rencontrés dans le train et personne ne sait que nous nous connaissons. Nous avons chacun un alibi parfait. Un alibi sans la moindre fissure ! " Cette fois, je sentis que je tenais un beau sujet, car chacun n''a-t-il pas, au moins une fois dans sa vie, souhaité tuer quelqu''un, à condition bien entendu d''être sûr de l''impunité. Le crime parfait ! Tout le monde s''y intéresse ! Alfred Hitchcock. On ne cesse de la relire. Elle a créé un monde original, un monde clos, irrationnel, oppressant où nous ne pénétrons qu''avec un sentiment personnel de danger et presque malgré nous. Car nous allons au-devant d''un plaisir mêlé d''effroi. Graham Greene.

A major new reissue of the work of a classic noir novelist.

Tom Ripley stops at nothing to accomplish his goals.