Connoisseur of art, harpsichord aficionado, gardener extraordinaire, and genius of improvisational murder, the inimitable Tom Ripley finds his complacency shaken when he is scorned at a posh gala. While an ordinary psychopath might repay the insult with some mild act of retribution, what Ripley has in mind is far more …
Soon to be a major market Cate Blanchett film adaptation under the name Carol! The Price of Salt (sometimes published under the title Carol) is a 1952 romance novel by Patricia Highsmith, written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The author - known as a suspense writer following the publication of her previous book, …
Strangers on a Train is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith about two men who meet and agree to "trade" murders so that neither will be a suspect in the death of their respective victim. It was adapted as a film in 1951 by director Alfred Hitchcock. It has subsequently been adapted several times in …
آقای ریپلی بااستعداد نام رمان جنایی و روانشناسانهای است نوشتهٔ پاتریشیا هایاسمیت که در سال ۱۹۵۵ در ایالات متحده آمریکا منتشر شده است. این رمان اولین داستان از پنجگانهای است که شخصیت اصلیاش «تام ریپلی» است. آقای ریپلی بااستعداد در سال ۱۹۵۶ نامزد دریافت جایزهٔ ادگار آلنپو شد و در سال ۱۹۵۷ «جایزهٔ بزرگ ادبیات …