An unlikely encounter between Therese, a young sales clerk, and Carol, a lonely homemaker, leads to an amorous romance in this classic work of lesbian fiction. Struggling against the oppressive routines of their daily lives and the strict social norms...
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...
Patricia Highsmith's groundbreaking lesbian pulp novel, "The Price of Salt," is loaded with scenes of eating and drinking. Whether it's a classic lunch of roast beef and mashed potatoes in Frankenberg's cafeteria, or a quick...
Edith Howland's diary provides a reflective interlude in her busy day. This chilling character study charts a diary gone wrong: as Edith's life turns sour, her diary entries only grow brighter. While her life plunges into chaos - her husband abandons...
"Long out of print, this Highsmith classic resurfaces with a vengeance. The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of this legendary, cultish short story collection. With an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith...
En esta novela, de un suspense trepidante, encontramos de nuevo a Tom Ripley el protagonista ambiguo y fascinante de"A pleno sol", algunos años después, con una reputación intachable y casado con una joven y hermosa heredera...
The honeymoon is over; the bride dead by her own hand. Ray Garrett, the grieving husband, convinces the police in Rome of his innocence, but not his father-in-law, Ed Coleman, who shoots him at point-blank range and leaves him for dead. Ray survives and...
"Sydney Bartleby has killed his wife, Alicia-at least he has thought about it, compulsively, over and over again, plotting schemes, designing escapes, forging alibis. Of course he has; he's a mystery-script writer. But when Alicia takes a long,...
Contemporary / American English Guy Haines is travelling through Texas on a train when a stranger invites him to share a meal. But the stranger has a terrible plan. 'You murder my father, and I'll murder your wife,' he suggests. So begins Guy's...