Complete Ripley Novels (Boxed Set) » (Boxed Set)

Though she penned such great psychological crime novels as Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith's gifts went largely unrecognized by American readers until recently. Fortunately, Highsmith's bizarre, subtly shaded novels were too good to remain obscure.

No lover of American literature should be without this stunning boxed set of all five Ripley novels.

Publishers Weekly

More than 50 years after Highsmith first introduced him in The Talented Mr. Ripley(1955), fans of the dashing and dangerous Tom Ripley can enjoy all his adventures in one set-The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley and Ripley Under Water. Highsmith (1921-1991) first gained prominence with her 1950 novel, Strangers on a Train, adapted a year later to film by Alfred Hitchcock. But it was Ripley who cemented her name in the burgeoning genre of psychological suspense. From his first murder-of rich playboy Dickie Greenleaf in Talented-to his graceful fade into anonymity in Under Water, Ripley is everything crime fiction fans love in an (anti)hero: a charmingly slick killer who can worm his way out of anything. (Oct.)

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