Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mister Ripley

UK 1999, 248 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK - Ripley 1
It's here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith's five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied for being a »sissy«. Newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan, Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie ... Weiterlesen

Felice Picano: Der Köder

D 1999, 475 S., Pb., € 19.95
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Bruno Gmünder
Als Noel Cummings Zeuge eines brutalen Mordes wird, gerät er unfreiwillig als Köder der Polizei in die Subkultur Manhattans. Noel ist zunächst neugierig, dann fasziniert und entdeckt nach und nach das pulsierende Leben der Ostküsten-Metropole und vor allem seine eigene, wahre Sexualität. Letztlich wird Noel sogar zu einer Schlüsselfigur im Kampf zwischen einer mafiaähnlichen Organisation und der New Yorker Schwulenszene.

Patricia Highsmith: The Boy Who Followed Ripley

UK 1993, 348 pp, brochure, € 17.95
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Hachette - Ripley 4
Tom Ripley meets a young American runaway who has a dark secret that he is desperate to hide. Soon this unlikely pair is drawn into the seamy underworld of Berlin and a shocking kidnapping. In this masterful thriller, Highsmith shatters our perceptions of her most famous creation by letting us glimpse a more compassionate side of this amoral charmer.

Samuel M. Steward: Murder Is Murder Is Murder

USA 1990, 183 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Alice Toklas sees the father of their gardener confronting an unpleasant farmer while the latter is plowing. She goes into the house to tell her lover Gertrude Stein of the altercation, but when the two get back to the garden, only the farmer is still in sight, plowing as before. But their gardener's father does not return home that night ... Weiterlesen