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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Three classic crime novels by amaster of the macabre appear here together in hardcover for thefirst time. Suave, agreeable, and completely amoral, PatriciaHighsmith's hero, the inimitable Tom Ripley, stops at nothing--noteven murder-- to accomplish his goals. In achieving for himself theopulent life that he was denied as a child, Ripley shows himself tobe a master of illusion and manipulation and a disturbinglysympathetic combination of genius and psychopath. As Highsmithnavigates the mesmerizing tangle of Ripley's deadly and sinistergames, she turns the mystery genre inside out and takes us into themind of a man utterly indifferent to evil. The Talented Mr.RipleyIn a chilling literary hall of mirrors, Patricia Highsmithintroduces Tom Ripley. Like a hero in a latter-day Henry Jamesnovel, is sent to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal youngAmerican back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself veryfond of Dickie Greenleaf. He wants to be like him--exactly likehim. Suave, agreeable, and utterly amoral, Ripley stops atnothing--certainly not only one murder--to accomplish his goal.Turning the mystery form inside out, Highsmith shows the terrifyingabilities afforded to a man unhindered by the concept of evil.Ripley Under GroundIn this harrowing illumination of the psychoticmind, the enviable Tom Ripley has a lovely house in the Frenchcountryside, a beautiful and very rich wife, and an art collectionworthy of a connoisseur. But such a gracious life has not comeeasily. One inopportune inquiry, one inconvenient friend, andRipley's world will come tumbling down--unless he takes decisivesteps. In a mesmerizing novel that coolly subverts all traditionalnotions of literary justice, Ripley enthralls us even as we watchhim perform acts of pure and unspeakable evil. Ripley'sGameConnoisseur of art, harpsichord aficionado, gardenerextraordinaire, and genius of improvisational murder, theinimitable Tom Ripley finds his complacency shaken when he isscorned at a posh gala. While an ordinary psychopath might repaythe insult with some mild act of retribution, what Ripley has inmind is far more subtle, and infinitely more sinister. A socialslight doesn't warrant murder of course-- just a chain of eventsthat may lead to it.