298 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 1992 by Vintage Books.

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4 stars (1 review)

It's been six years since Ripley murdered Dickie Greenleaf and inherited his money. Now, in Ripley Under Ground (1970), he lives in a beautiful French villa, surrounded by a world-class art collection and married to a pharmaceutical heiress. All seems serene in Ripley's world until a phone call from London shatters his peace. An art forgery scheme he set up a few years ago is threatening to unravel: a nosy American is asking questions and Ripley must go to London to put a stop to it. In this second Ripley novel, Patricia Highsmith offers a mesmerizing and disturbing tale in which Ripley will stop at nothing to preserve his tangle of lies.

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Subjects

  • Ripley, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Serial murderers -- Fiction
  • Psychopaths -- Fiction
  • Criminals -- Fiction