\\\"You\"re always good on ideas, Tom...\\\" An American art collector is claiming that the expensive masterpiece he bought is a fake. He wants to meet with the artist - but Tom Ripley knows that artist no longer exits. Ripley needs to hide his role in the fraud, and keep his colleague\"s mouth shut....

\\\"Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?\\\" From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities....

In the 1950s, Tom Ripley travels from the United States of America to Italy, to find Dickie Greenleaf and bring him home to his father. But when Tom sees Dickie\"s money and relaxed way of life, he becomes jealous and begins to make other plans. Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language....

In a pitiless story of prying suburban self-righteousness, Patricia Highsmith introduces the Alderman family as they descend into moral crisis. When small-town insurance salesman Richard Alderman becomes a born-again Christian, his once tight-knit family quickly begins to rip apart at the seams....

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

\"If I really don\"t like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don\"t you?\" 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 to her husband....

Tom Ripley travels 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 will stop at nothing to accomplish his goal....

Published to celebrate the centenary of one of the twentieth century\"s most influential writers, this is the most comprehensive collection of Highsmith\"s short fiction, including two unpublished stories. Disturbing, exhilarating, potent, savagely funny....

Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre – The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, and Ripley\"s Game – 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....

\"Extraordinary... one of her finest novels\" Guardian \\\"If everybody in the world didn\"t keep watching to see what everybody else did, we\"d all go berserk.\\\" Jenny believes that sighting an owl is a portent of death. When she spots a stranger looking in through her window one night, she believes that he is an omen too....

\"Marvellously, insanely readable... Highsmith has done it again\" The Times \\\"There\"s no such thing as a perfect murder... That\"s just a parlor game, trying to dream one up.\\\" Tom Ripley is enjoying his wealthy lifestyle in France, until an associate asks him to kill someone again. But Ripley detests murder, unless it is absolutely necessary....

\"He is using you for what you are worth\" Tom Ripley wants money, success, and the good life - and he\"s willing to kill for it. Struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors, and the law, Ripley leaps at the chance to start afresh on a free trip to Europe....

Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors, and the law, when an unexpected acquaintance offers him a free trip to Europe and a chance to start over. Ripley wants money, success and the good life and he\"s willing to kill for......

Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love....

The psychologists would call it folie a deux . . . \"Bruno slammed his palms together. \\\"Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?...