Patricia Highsmith

Broschiertes Buch

Ripley's Game

Beschreibung

Die Mafia versucht, in Hamburg Fuß zu fassen - das soll verhindert werden. Gesucht wird also ein Mann, der gegen viel Geld zwei Menschen umbringt. Tom Ripley kennt da jemanden ...

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 3
• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, New York
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 613391
• 1999.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 130mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 199g
• ISBN-13: 9780099283683
• ISBN-10: 0099283689
• Artikelnr.: 20893562

Rezensionen

To call Patricia Highsmith a thriller writer is true but not the whole truth: her books have stylistic texture, psychological depth, mesmeric readability Sunday Times