These stories highlight the remarkable range of Highsmith's powers her unique ability to quickly, almost imperceptibly, draw out the mystery and strangeness of her subject, which appears achingly ordinary to our naked eye. Whether writing about jaded wives or household pets, Highsmith continually upsets our expectations and presents a world frighteningly familiar to our own, where danger lurks around every turn. Stories fromThe Animal-Lovers Book of Beastly Murders portray, with incisive humor, the murderously competitive desires of our most trusted companions. In this viciously...

H.R.F Keating, author of The Perfect Murder and mystery reviewer for teh Times of London, offers a concise commentary on the finest mystery books ever written. From Poe's tales of mystery and imagination to P.D. James's A Taste for Death, Keating delivers a highly-readable evaluation of the 100 authors and their masterpieces. This collection is a must for all devoted mystery readers. "Something to offer almost everyone. If you are only just embarking on a life of crime fiction...a reliable guide." -The New York Times "Remarkably balanced and highly entertaining." -Library Journal "Keating,...

With its sinister humor and genius plotting, Ripley's Game is an enduring portrait of a compulsive, sociopathic American antihero.

Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath. Here, in this first Ripley novel, we are introduced to suave Tom Ripley, a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf, back from gallivanting in Italy. Soon Ripley's fascination with Dickie's debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie's ambivalent affections for Marge, a charming American...

Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened" (New York Times Book Review), was Patricia Highsmith's favorite creation. In these volumes, we find Ripley ensconced on a French estate with a wealthy wife, a world-class art collection, and a past to hide. In Ripley Under Ground (1970), an art forgery goes awry and Ripley is threatened with exposure; in The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose...

Have you ever watched Gladiator and seen the gas cylinder in the back of one of the Roman chariots? Or the stagehand caught on set during the Tin Man's dance in The Wizard of Oz? Or been amazed by the astounding self-attaching electrodes in Spider Man? Everyone loves a good movie, but there's nothing we like more than finding a continuity error, a historical innaccuracy or a technical blunder in them. In this completely updated edition, Jon Sandys has included new mistakes from films such as Star Wars II - Attack of the Clones, Die Another Day, Gangs of New York, Harry Potter and the Chamber...

Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened" (New York Times Book Review), was Patricia Highsmith's favorite creation. In The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction draws them into Berlin's seamy underworld. More than any other American literary character, Ripley provides "a lens to peer into the sinister machinations of human behavior" (John Freeman, Pittsburgh Gazette).

Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened" (New York Times Book Review), was Patricia Highsmith's favorite creation. In these volumes, we find Ripley ensconced on a French estate with a wealthy wife, a world-class art collection, and a past to hide. In Ripley Under Ground (1970), an art forgery goes awry and Ripley is threatened with exposure; in The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose...

Ein kleiner Ort an der tunesischen Kste. Ein Hotel-Bungalow. Ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller, der an einem Drehbuch arbeitet und ungeduldig auf Nachricht von seiner Geliebten wartet. Ein schemenhafter, nchtlicher Besucher. Eine zerbeulte Schreibmaschine. Ein spurlos verschwundener Tagedieb. Ist der identisch mit dem verscheuchten Besucher?

Der Schriftsteller Sydney und seine Frau Alicia führen eine schwierige Ehe. Manchmal stellt sich Sydney vor, wie es wäre, Alicia umzubringen. Dieser Gedanke regt seine Phantasie an, und Sydney beginnt eine Geschichte zu schreiben, in der er den Mord an Alicia minutiös schildert. Als Alicia aber tatsächlich verschwindet, ist Sydney plötzlich in Teufels Küche...