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1	Talented Mr. Ripley more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.82! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Boy Who Followed Ripley more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripley's French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he'd left behind, the seedy underworld of Berlin and kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Ripley becomes the boy's protector as a friendship develops between the young man with a guilty conscience and the older one with no conscience at all. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.23! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Price of Salt more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist With an autobiographical Afterword by the author, "The Price of Salt" is now recognized as a masterwork, the scandalous novel that anticipated Nabokov's "Lolita." see all copies from $2.29! new only from $8.07! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist This collection includes "The Mightiest Mornings," "Music to Die By," "A Dangerous Hobby," and other heretofore uncollected stories by Highsmith. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.29! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Strangers on a Train more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist 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? From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.92! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Ripley's Game more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist Tom Ripley detests murder - unless it is absolutely necessary. If possible he prefers someone else to do the dirty work; in this case, a victim of a fatal disease, with no criminal record, who will murder for a reward, in order to provide for his young widow and child. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.51! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Ripley Under Ground more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist The Buckmaster Gallery is staging another Derwatt exhibition, but now an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake. It is, of course, and he wants to talk to Derwatt, but Derwatt, inconveniently, is dead. Ripley needs the perfect solution to keep his role in the fraud a secret and his reputation ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Ripley Under Water more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist Remember Dickie Greenleaf? Tom Ripley killed him. The only thing is he keeps ringing Tom up. Enough to make even a cool cucumber like Ripley uneasy. This book immerses the reader in Tom's world at Belle Ombre with the lovely Heloise and the very shadowy world of art forgery and murder. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Cry of the Owl more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist Robert Forester didn't look like the kind of man to be a prowler. His ex-wife had told the police he was erratic, liable to violence, had evenfired a gun at her. Maybe he was psychopathic murderer... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Talented Mr. Ripley/Ripley Under Ground/Ripley's Game more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre appear here together in hardcover for the first time. Ripley, " is soon to be released from Miramax starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, and Matt Damon. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $15.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Small G a Summer Idyll more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist This final work by the late Patricia Highsmith, author of the critically acclaimed Ripley thrillers, concerns the tangled, tortured loves and hates of the customers at Jakob's, a Zurich bar known for its mixed gay, straight, and bisexual clientele. One of the bar's habitues, Ricky, is mourning the death of his lover Petey, murdered six months ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Tremor of Forgery more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist An American writer heads to Tunisia, finds intrigue, and becomes an accomplice to murder. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.22! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Plotting & Writing Suspense Fiction more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist Explains how to use the elements of suspense to create and develop an exciting story. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.15! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Deep water more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist Vic and Melinda Meller's loveless marriage is held together by an arrangement which allows Melinda to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family. Eventually, Vic tries to win her back by asserting himself through a tall tale of murder - one that soon comes true. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.44! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist This expansive compendium showcases the chilled, and chilling, sensibility of the creator of the Ripley novels. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.91! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Crime Novels of the 50s: American Noir more books like this by Robert Polito (Editor), Jim Thompson, Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist "The Killer Inside Me; The Talented Mr. Ripley Pick-Up; Down There"; and "TheReal Cool Killers". see all copies from $9.41! new only from $24.84! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Black House more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist A collection of dark tales, originally published in 1981, sketches the lives of suburban residents who appear normal at first but who are later revealed to have macabre realities. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.20! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	This sweet sickness more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist David Kelsey has an unyielding conviction that life will turn out all right for him. He just has to fix The Situation: he is in love with a married woman. Obsessed with Annabelle and the life he has imagined for them, David prepares to win her over, whatever it takes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.05! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Blunderer more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist Walter Stockhouse no longer loves his wife and wishes that she was dead - a wish that is fulfilled when her body is discovered at the bottom of a cliff. Kept under close police scrutiny, Walter must eventually struggle for his own life in this suspense novel, reissued for the first time since 1956. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.53! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Two Faces of January more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist Rydal Keener, an American "doing" Europe, is standing on the fourth floor of a shabby tourist hotel in Athens, waiting for something exciting to happen. Around the corner Chester MacFarland is also waiting - to be arrested for fraud and Collete, Chester's wife, is wating for something too. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.81! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Ediths Diary more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist Edith Howland's diary documents the twisted perseverance of a woman as her life plunges into chaos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	A Suspension of Mercy more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist Alicia Bartleby was right - she had died at least 20 times in her husband's imagination. But then Sydney was a thriller script-writer after all. When she takes an extended trip to Brighton without getting in touch with anyone, Sydney goes through the motions of being a wife-killer. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.15! \| first editions \| SVS
23	The talented Mr Ripley; ; Ripley under ground; : Ripley's game; : The boy who followed Ripley.Ripley under ground; ; Ripley's game more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist These four novels follow the 20-year career of the discriminating and utterly unscrupulous Tom Ripley, who lives a wealthy and privileged life, thanks to a rich wife and an unerring determination to murder anyone who stands in his way. see all copies from $2.53! first editions
24 view cover	Those who walk away more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist The honeymoon is over, and the bride is dead. The grieving husband convinces the police in Rome of his innocence, but has no such luck with his father-in-law, who shoots him at point-blank range and leaves him for dead. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.81! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The glass cell more books like this by Patricia Highsmith add to wishlist Rife with overtones of Dostoyevsky, "The Glass Cell" combines a quintessential Highsmith mystery with a penetrating critique of the psychological devastation wrought by the prison system, offering a bleak and compelling portrait of daily prison life that is, sadly, as relevant today as it was when the book was first published in 1964. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.77! \| first editions \| SVS

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