Patricia Highsmith

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Ripley Under Ground

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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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Produktdetails

• A Ripley Novel
• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 613389
• 1999.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 200g
• ISBN-13: 9780099283584
• ISBN-10: 0099283581
• Artikelnr.: 22362696

Rezensionen

In Ripley Under Ground Patricia Highsmith is in her most brilliant form Daily Telegraph