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Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer best known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories throughout her career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing derived influence from existentialist literature, and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene.

Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, has been adapted for stage and screen numerous times, notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Her 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley has been adapted numerous times for film, theatre, and radio. Writing under the pseudonym "Claire Morgan," Highsmith published the first lesbian novel with a happy ending, The Price of Salt, in 1952, republished 38 years later as Carol under her own name and later adapted into a 2015 film.

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Tom Ripleys spil. En Patricia Highsmith krimi.

Krimi. Efter sagen med Buckmaster Gallery i London fører Tom Ripley nu en sorgløs tilværelse på den overdådige sydfranske ejendom Belle Ombre med sin smukke kone Heloise. Landidyllen bliver imidlertid brudt, da Ripleys tvivlsomme bekendtskab, millionæren Reeves, beder ham finde en mand til en lige så tvivlsom opgave: elimineringen af mafiahåndlangere i Hamburg. Tom Ripley accepterer opgaven og trækker den modvillige engelske rammemager Jonathan ind i et spil, hvis regler ingen kan overskue. Det bliver snart uhyggeligt klart, hvor forskelligt de to ser på moral – og mord. Tom Ripley er på alle måder en bittersød cocktail. I kraft af sin komplekse karakter befinder han sig altid i grænseområderne. Som læser ved man aldrig helt, om man skal lade sig forarge eller forføre. TOM RIPLEYS SPIL er tredje bind i Patricia Highsmiths klassiske krimiserie, om svindleren, der forener det charmerende med det psykotiske.
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Udgivelsesdato03 jan. 2013
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ISBN epub9788771280029