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Un uomo che usa la sua mente come un'onnipotente macchina da scrivere. Un gruppo di amici affiatati che diventa una setta capace di assorbire e divorare qualunque elemento disturbante esterno. Uno stagno le cui erbacce infestanti sembrano vivere di vita propria. Una rapina notturna dagli esiti imprevedibili. Una lotta per la proprietà terriera fra due proprietari di fondi confinanti che non si ferma neanche di fronte all'omicidio. Dodici inqui...

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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...

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Tom Ripley is quietly living a life of luxury at his chateau at Villeperce, and, as ever, is keeping one step ahead of the law - he has, after all, a past that would not bear too much close scrutiny.

With the savage humor of Evelyn Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Edgar Allan Poe, Patricia Highsmith brought a distinct twentieth-century acuteness to her prolific body of fiction. In her more than twenty novels, psychopaths lie in wait amid the milieu of the mundane, in the neighbor clipping the hedges or the spouse asleep next to you at night. Now, Norton continues the revival of this noir genius with another of her lost masterpieces: a ...

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.

This is the text of the play by Phyllis Nagy, "The Talented Mr Ripley", written in the 1990s.

....is a young man of no means, and expensive tastes, and his nerveless, conscienceless progression is traced from the time when Tom Ripley is sent to Italy to retrieve an expatriate son, Dickie Greenleaf. Ripley attaches himself to Dickie, is annoyed by the adhesive Marge who is in love with Dickie and wary of Tom, and finally when Dickie's friendship cools he kills him and assumes his identity. For several months he lives comfortably on Dick...

With the acclaim for The Talented Mr. Ripley, more film projects in production, and two biographies forthcoming, expatriate legend Patricia Highsmith would be shocked to see that she has finally arrived in her homeland. Throughout her career, Highsmith brought a keen literary eye and a genius for plumbing the psychopathic mind to more than thirty works of fiction, unparalleled in their placid deviousness and sardonic humor. With deadpan accura...

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Vic and Melinda Van Allen's loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family. Eventually, Vic can no longer suppress his jealousy and tries to win back his wife by asserting himself through a tall tale of murder-one that soon comes true. In this complex portrayal of a dangerous psycho...

The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of, featuring two groundbreaking novels and a trove of penetrating short stories. This firmly establishes Highsmiths centrality to American culture.

The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of, featuring two groundbreaking novels and a trove of penetrating short stories. This firmly establishes Highsmiths centrality to American culture.

The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of, featuring two groundbreaking novels and a trove of penetrating short stories. This firmly establishes Highsmiths centrality to American culture.

Like a hero in a latter-day Henry James novel, 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.