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Ripley Under Ground
Ripley Series (Related to this series)
- Author
- Patricia Highsmith
- Narrator
- Adam Sims
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 15 December 2016
- Run Time
- 9 hours 31 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
The second novel in Highsmith's hugely influential, groundbreaking Ripley series.
'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' THE TIMES
'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'The sequence of novels allows Highsmith to create a frightening sense of momentum' GUARDIAN
Tom Ripley is now the owner of a beautiful estate in France, a wealthy art collector and married to an heiress. The Buckmaster Gallery is staging an exhibition by the celebrated artist, Derwatt, but 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 clean, but not everyone's nerves are as steady as his. Especially when it comes to murder.
Ripley Under Ground is an ingenious novel of masks and identity, illusion and reality, and is followed by Ripley's Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley and Ripley Under Water.
Critics Review
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By her hypnotic art Patricia Highsmith puts the suspense story into a toweringly high place in the hierarchy of fiction
The Times
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The sequence of novels allows Highsmith to create a frightening sense of momentum
Guardian
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Patricia Highsmith is unrivalled. In Ripley Under Ground Patricia Highsmith is in her most brilliant form
Daily Telegraph
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Sometimes you suspect that Miss Highsmith as well as Ripley is getting away with murder-but they both do it so elegantly
Kirkus Reviews
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Ripley Under Ground is Highsmith back on top of her most enjoyable humour-and-horrors form
Sunday Telegraph
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A bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened
New York Times Book Review
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Patricia Highsmith is a crime novelist whose books one can re-read many times. There are very few of whom one can say that
Graham Greene
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Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing
Frank Rich
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Details
- Author
- Patricia Highsmith
- Narrator
- Adam Sims
- Duration
- 9 hours 31 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 December 2016
- ISBN
- 9781405537056
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Crime and / or mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction
Synopsis
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN The second novel in Highsmith's hugely influential, groundbreaking Ripley series.'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' THE TIMES 'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'The sequence of novels allows Highsmith to create a frightening sense of momentum' GUARDIAN Tom Ripley is now the owner of a beautiful estate in France, a wealthy art collector and married to an heiress. The Buckmaster Gallery is staging an exhibition by the celebrated artist, Derwatt, but 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 clean, but not everyone's nerves are as steady as his. Especially when it comes to murder.Ripley Under Ground is an ingenious novel of masks and identity, illusion and reality, and is followed by Ripley's Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley and Ripley Under Water.
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