Patricia Highsmith

Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s: The Killer Inside Me / The Talented Mr. Ripley / Pick-up / Down There / The Real Cool Killers (Library of America)
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Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s: The Killer Inside Me / The Talented Mr. Ripley / Pick-up / Down There / The Real Cool Killers (Library of America)
Robert Polito , Patricia Highsmith , charles Willeford , David Goodis , and Chester Himes
Manufacturer: Library of America
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ASIN: 1883011493
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game (Everyman's Library)
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The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game (Everyman's Library)
Patricia Highsmith
Manufacturer: Everyman's Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0375407928
Release Date: 1999-10-12
The Talented Mr. Ripley
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
Manufacturer: Vintage
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0679742298
Release Date: 1992-09-01
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
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Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
Patricia Highsmith
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ASIN: 031228666X
Strangers on a Train
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Strangers on a Train
Patricia Highsmith
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0393321983
Ripley Under Ground
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Ripley Under Ground
Patricia Highsmith
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ASIN: 0679742301
Release Date: 1992-09-01
The Price of Salt
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The Price of Salt
Patricia Highsmith , and W. W. Norton
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The Cry of the Owl (Highsmith, Patricia)
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The Boy Who Followed Ripley
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Ripley's Game
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Ripley's Game
Patricia Highsmith
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ASIN: 0679745688
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