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Ganz einfach eine wunderschöne Liebesgeschichte. Carol liebt Therese, und Therese liebt Carol. In McCarthys Amerika war sie so skandalös, dass sie 1950 unter Pseudonym erscheinen musste.

Unbeschwerte Dolce Vita: Das ist das Leben, von dem Tom Ripley in seinem New Yorker Kellerloch träumt - und das sein Schulfreund Dickie Greenleaf führt. Dickies Vater, ein reicher Reeder, bittet Tom, nach Italien zu fahren und seinen "verlorenen Sohn" nach Amerika zurückzuholen: ein Traumauftrag für einen armen Nobody wie Tom. Noch ahnt niemand, wie weit Ripley gehen wird, um für immer zu Dickies Welt zu gehören.

A master of the psychological crime genre, Patricia Highsmith is most famous for her quintet of best-selling Ripley novels, and her groundbreaking thriller Strangers on a Train (notably adapted as a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock). This extensive collection encompasses her best-known works, as well as selected short stories and three programmes about the author herself and her greatest creation, charismatic anti-hero Tom Ripley.

Olivia Amory hat ihrem Mann versprochen, ihren Liebhaber drei Monate nicht zu sehen, um der Ehe noch eine Chance zu geben...

In Patricia Highsmith's debut novel, we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in Highsmith's perilous world - where, under the right circumstances, anybody is capable of murder.

Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law when an unexpected acquaintance offers him the chance to start over. Ripley wants money, success, and the good life and he's willing to kill for it. When his newfound happiness is threatened, his response is as swift as it is shocking.

The 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.

Vic und Melinda scheinen ein Traumpaar zu sein. Doch tatsächlich sind sie so sehr füreinander bestimmt, dass nichts sie mehr voreinander retten kann. Damit Melinda ihn nicht verlässt, gestattet ihr Vic, auch mit anderen Männern zu schlafen. Womit er nicht gerechnet hat? Mit sich selbst.

In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fondness turns obsessive when Ripley is sent to Italy to bring back his libertine pal, but he grows enraged by Dickie's ambivalent feelings for Marge, a charming American dilettante.

Ein kleiner Ort an der tunesischen Küste. Ein Hotel-Bungalow. Ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller, der an einem Drehbuch arbeitet...

Der amerikanische Hochstapler und Fremdenführer Rydal lernt in Athen das elegante Ehepaar Chester und Colette MacFarland kennen. Die schöne Blonde erinnert ihn an seine unglückliche Jugendliebe, und während Rydal ihr immer mehr verfällt, zieht ihn Chester in einen Strudel des Verbrechens. Als man ihnen auf die Spur kommt, fliehen die drei über Kreta und Marseille bis nach Paris, wo sie ihr Schicksal schließlich einholt. Ein Roman über Eifersucht, Verrat, Mord und die verzweifelte Suche nach Glück.

Der frisch geschiedene Robert Forrester steht jeden Abend in Jennys Garten und sieht zu ihrem Küchenfenster hoch. Die junge Frau symbolisiert für ihn die Unschuld, die er verloren hat. Der Beginn einer Liebesgeschichte?

Zwei Fremde im Zug New York - Texas entdecken und planen das perfekte Alibi... für zwei Morde. Aus einem Moment der Unachtsamkeit heraus wird Guy zum Komplizen Brunos, der ihn auf eine schiefe Bahn mitnimmt, auf der es kein Festhalten und keine Moral mehr gibt und auch kein Entrinnen.

A chance encounter between two lonely women leads to a passionate romance in this lesbian cult classic. Therese, a struggling young sales clerk, and Carol, a homemaker in the midst of a bitter divorce, abandon their oppressive daily routines for the freedom of the open road, where their love can blossom. But their newly discovered bliss is shattered when Carol is forced to choose between her child and her lover.

Edith notiert in ihrem Tagebuch, was sie bewegt. Ihr Mann trägt sie auf Händen, ihr Sohn brilliert an einer Eliteuni und als erfolgreiche Journalistin. Doch in der wirklichen Welt kämpft sie auf fast verlorenem Posten.

Living on his posh French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle age, is no longer the striving comer of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Having accrued considerable wealth through a long career of crime—forgery, extortion, serial murder—Ripley still finds his appetite unquenched and longs to get back in the game.

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.

Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when an alluring woman in her 30s walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. She is an awkward 19-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love; Carol is a sophisticated, bored suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce and a custody battle for her only daughter. As Therese becomes irresistibly drawn into Carol's world, she soon realises how much they both stand to lose....

Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in flaunting her many affairs to her husband. When one of her lovers is murdered, Vic hints to her latest conquest that he was responsible. As rumours spread about Vic's vicious streak, fiction and reality start to converge. It's only a matter of time before Vic really does have blood on his hands.

Patricia Highsmith's first novel was picked up by Hitchcock and was a world-wide success. Her second novel was meant to tell everything about her true inside and dare what no-one had dared to write before: a lesbian love-story with a happy ending. But when she eventually relented to publish it under a pseudonym, it was a decision that would shape her life more than she could have guessed at the time. Henceforth she would vent her inner life either encoded in her future novels or—unbeknownst to most—in the 18 diaries and 38 notebooks she kept throughout her life.