The Psychologists would call it folie a deux...'Bruno slammed his palms together.' Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch? From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities.

Strangers on a Train

Literature & Fiction

HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA

Genre Fiction

Vintage Books

Ripley's Game

Tom Ripley detested murder. Unless it was absolutely necessary. If possible, he preferred someone else to do the dirty work. In this case someone with no criminal record, who would commit 'two simple murders' for a very generous fee...

Ripley's Game (A Ripley Novel)

Contemporary

Two Faces of January

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Arrow Books, Ltd.

Obsessed with his love for Annabelle Delaney, David Kelsey tries to break up her marriage and succeeds in accidentally killing her husband

This Sweet Sickness

Penguin??Books

A Suspension of Mercy

Alicia Bartleby was right - she had died at least 20 times in her husband's imagination. But then Sydney was a thriller script-writer after all. When she takes an extended trip to Brighton without getting in touch with anyone, Sydney goes through the motions of being a wife-killer.

At last back in print, one of Patricia Highsmith's most disturbing works. Rife with overtones of Dostoyevsky, The Glass Cell, first published forty years ago, combines a quintessential Highsmith mystery with a penetrating critique of the psychological devastation wrought by the prison system. Falsely convicted of fraud, the easygoing but naive Philip Carter is sentenced to six lonely, drug-ravaged years in prison. Upon his release, Carter is a more suspicious and violent man. For those around him, earning back his trust can mean the difference between life and death. The Glass Cell's bleak and compelling portrait of daily prison life―and the consequences for those who live it―is, sadly, as relevant today as it was when the book was first published in 1964.

The Glass Cell

Strangers on a train

Guy Haines loses his own identity after he is drawn into a plot to commit murder

Deep Water (Penguin Crime Fiction)

Penguin Uk

A dog's ransom

A Dog's Ransom

In a chilling literary hall of mirrors, Patricia Highsmith introduces Tom Ripley.  Like a hero in a latter-day Henry James novel, is sent to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young American back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself very fond of Dickie Greenleaf. He wants to be like him--exactly like him.  Suave, agreeable, and utterly amoral, Ripley stops at nothing--certainly not only one murder--to accomplish his goal.  Turning the mystery form inside out, Highsmith shows the terrifying abilities afforded to a man unhindered by the concept of evil.

The Talented Mr. Ripley

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Strangers on a Train

Ripley's Game (A Ripley Novel)

Two Faces of January

This Sweet Sickness

A Suspension of Mercy

The Glass Cell

Strangers on a Train

Deep Water (Penguin Crime Fiction)

A Dog's Ransom

The Talented Mr. Ripley