'Patricia Highsmith is unrivalled' - Daily Telegraph
Ripley had kept his name and reputation clean. It would be embarrassing for him if his interest in the Buckmaster Gallery were made public. The gallery is staging another Derwatt exhibition. But now an American collector claims that the masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake. And he wants to talk to Derwatt. But he inconveniently is dead.
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'Patricia Highsmith is unrivalled' - Daily Telegraph
Ripley had kept his name and reputation clean. It would be embarrassing for him if his interest in the Buckmaster Gallery were made public. The gallery is staging another Derwatt exhibition. But now an American collector claims that the masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake. And he wants to talk to Derwatt. But he inconveniently is dead.
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'Patricia Highsmith is unrivalled' - Daily TelegraphThe 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 clean but not everyone's nerves are as steady as his. Especially when it comes to murder...
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“In Ripley Under Ground Patricia Highsmith is in her most brilliant form”
In Ripley Under Ground Patricia Highsmith is in her most brilliant form Daily Telegraph
The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer The Times
Ripley Under Ground is Highsmith back on top of her most enjoyable humour-and-horrors form Sunday Telegraph
By her hypnotic art Highsmith puts the suspense story into a toweringly high place in the hierachy of fiction The Times
The Ripley books are marvellously, insanely readable The Times
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
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 Under Ground is Highsmith back on top of her most enjoyable humour-and horrors form' Sunday Telegraph The 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 he, inconveniently, is dead. Ripley needs the perfect solution to keep his role in te fraud a secret and his reputation clean but not everyone's nerves are as steady as his. Especially when it comes to murder. '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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