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Title: Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith ISBN: 0-679-74230-1 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (21 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A great reading
Comment: Nigel Lambert reading Patricia Highsmith's "Ripley Under Ground" is a masterpiece. All the humour and suspense is rendered splendidly by Mr Lambert's beautiful reading.
Rating: 4
Summary: Hypnotic suspense
Comment: Another adventure with Patricia Highsmith's lovely character Thomas Ripley. This book follows the author's "The Talented Mr Ripley" so that the reader is already acquainted with most of the protagonists like Dick and Chris Greenleaf, Bernard Murchisson or Tom's wife Heloise. When Ed Banbury and Jeff Constant, owners of the Buckmaster Gallery in London, decide to open a new show featuring paintings by the famous Derwatt, the situation becomes uncomfortable when the American collector, Murchisson, claims that a painting he bought three years ago is a fake. Knowing that Derwatt died years ago in Greece and that Bernard had been forging paintings by "Derwatt", allegedly living in a remote village in Mexico, it will take all of Ripley's talent to clean the reputation of the Buckmaster Gallery, as Murchisson's visit to London is imminent. Mrs Highsmith's highly successful ingredients are all present in this novel: crime, horror, humour and suspense.
Rating: 3
Summary: Improbable Plot but Still a Good Read
Comment: This book continues on about 6 years after "The Talanted Mr. Ripley" ends. The first part of this book takes place in the span of only a few days and is almost comical. He has people in and out of his house constantly (and they are all men, does this mean something?). The plot of the art forgery and the murder is very unbelievable. But if Tom Ripley could fool an Italian police officer into thinking he was two different people just by putting on some glasses and changing the part and color of his hair, as he did in "Talented", then I guess he could fool someone in this book by wearing a beard. However, the last part was very unbelievable and there is no way he wouldn't have been arrested. As if the police are going to find burning a man's body because he (supposedly) told him to before he committed suicide, and then crushing the skull, is not suspicious behaviour. But, I couldn't put the book down, and I'm reading Ripley's Game, so Patricia Highsmith must be a great writer, at least to me.
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Title: The Boy Who Followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith ISBN: 067974567X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith ISBN: 0679745688 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith ISBN: 0679748091 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith ISBN: 0679742298 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith ISBN: 0393321983 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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