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NOW A MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIESTom 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. But when his new-found happiness is threatened, his response is as swift as it is shocking.Now a major new Netflix series, The Talented Mr Ripley is the first in Highsmith’s classic series featuring the character of Tom Ripley – fiction’s most terrifying con-man.’The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer’ The Times’Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation’ Daily Telegraph

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Weight 0.193 kg
Dimensions 2 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Paperback
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Pages

272
Publisher

Year Published

2024-4-4
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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

1529940885
About The Author

Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921 but moved to new York when she was six. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided to become a writer at the age of sixteen. Her first novel Strangers on a Train, was made into a famous film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland in 1995. Her last novel Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later.
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Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation
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As haunting and harrowing a study of a schizophrenic murder as paper will bear. A glittering addition to the meagre ranks of people who make books that you really can't put down

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