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A Dog's Ransom by Patricia Highsmith
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
'Dear Sir, I suppose you are pretty pleased with yourself? Superior to everyone, you think. A fancy apartment and a snob dog. You are a disgusting little machine, nothing else. Your days are numbered.' Ed Reynolds, an editor at a prestigious publishing house, has received a number of anonymous poison pe ...Show more
A Game for the Living: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
'Ramón had done it. Obviously! He thought about Ramón, his Catholic soul trapped in his passion for Lelia. He'd find Ramón and see that he paid with his life for what he had done.' Mild-mannered Theo is a wealthy German expatriate; hot-tempered Ramón was born into poverty in Mexico City. The two men ar ...Show more
A Suspension of Mercy: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: VMC
Sydney Bartleby has killed his wife. At least, he has thought about it, compulsively, repeatedly, plotting schemes, designing escapes, forging alibis. Of course he has; he's a thriller writer. He even knows how to dispose of her body. But when Alicia takes a long, unannounced holiday, Sydney descends in ...Show more
Animal Lover's Book of Beastly Murder by Patricia Highsmith
Category: Fiction
"Grisly and atmospheric... these] stories feature small worlds of animal amorality in which the sweet taste of revenge leaves no aftertaste of guilt." --Publishers Weekly Nowhere is Patricia Highsmith's affinity for animals more apparent than in The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder, for here she tr ...Show more
Boy Who Followed Ripley: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: VMC
When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripley's French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he'd left behind: the seedy underworld of Berlin, involving kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Ripley becomes the boy's protector as friendship develops between the young man with a guilty conscie ...Show more
Carol by Patricia Highsmith
Category: Fiction | Series: Movie Tie-In Editions Ser.
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY VAL McDERMID Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteen-year-o ...Show more
Carol by Patricia Highsmith
Category: Fiction
Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteen-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfri ...Show more
Carol by Patricia Highsmith
Category: Fiction
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY VAL McDERMID Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteen-year-o ...Show more
Carol by Patricia Highsmith
Category: Junior Fiction
Therese glimpses Carol, a sophisticated married woman, in a department store. Aged 19, and loved by a young man she cares about but cannot desire, Therese now has only one objective: meeting Carol... This is a reissue of the lesbian classic once titled The Price of Salt, published under a pseudonym in 1 ...Show more
Deep Water: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?' 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 he ...Show more