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Ripley Under Ground (Hardcover)

by Patricia Highsmith (Author)
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American-born Tom Ripley has lived in the suburbs of Paris for some fifteen years, supported by income from not-so-honestly-gotten gains. An impending scandal threatens his comfortable existence, and Tom must act carefully and quickly. Novelist Highsmith deftly develops the story to elicit our sympathy for the crook, and we oblige. Briton Nigel Lambert reads the story with mounting excitement, immediately catching the reader in the suspense. Accents of the American characters have an unnatural, Midwestern flatness, but aside from this shortcoming, the story is a good choice for recording, and the production is well-done. N.B.H. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.


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Tom Ripley is a man who wants money, success, the good life - and is willing to kill for it. To avoid charges of forgery, the Buckmaster Gallery must produce the British painter, Derwatt. But he is dead. Tom Ripley is called in to work miracles, and will stop at nothing to protect himself.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A great reading, Jan 27 2004
By Philippe Horak (Zug, Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ripley Under Ground (Audio Cassette)
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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Hypnotic suspense, Jan 27 2004
By Philippe Horak (Zug, Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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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.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Improbable Plot but Still a Good Read, Aug 6 2003
By G. Creamean "tom_riply" (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ripley Under Ground (Paperback)
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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2.0 out of 5 stars Dull,Dull,Dull,Dull...
This is the worst Ripley book.The plot lacks narrative drive and goes nowhere. Ok, Bernard Tuft is a very good caracther and there are some flashes of Higsmight's talents but in... Read more
Published on Aug 10 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars I Did Not Sleep!
The last two chapters of this book were riveting! The description of what Tom did while trying to cremate that body drew shudders: "Another try with the shovel at the head brought... Read more
Published on Jul 2 2002 by ViAmber

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor follow-up to The Talented Mr. Ripley
This book was a disappointment to me after having enjoyed both the book and movie of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Read more
Published on Feb 15 2002 by suetonius

5.0 out of 5 stars Exciting Sequel to THE TALENTED MR. RIPPLEY
This sequel to the TALENTED MR. RIPPLEY is just as exciting and suspencful as the the first book. Actually, I read it to find out what happend next after the movie ended, but the... Read more
Published on Aug 2 2001 by M. Jackson

4.0 out of 5 stars What imagaination!
It's a very interesting novel about a picture forging company which is peppered with a murder case, a suicide and the living funeral of the main character. Read more
Published on Jun 19 2001

2.0 out of 5 stars Ripley Under Ground
Hello? Where is the nervous, insecure, most probably insane pathological liar we met in the excellent "Talented... Read more
Published on May 10 2001 by dogsncoffee

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your time
All the problems with the mystery genre are typified by this novel: pedestrian writing, plot holes big enough to fly a plane through, flat characterization, totally implausible... Read more
Published on April 30 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Ripley is as Talented as Ever
In this, the second book of the Ripley series, we find Tom Ripley married and living in the country. Read more
Published on Sep 10 2000 by Lisa West

2.0 out of 5 stars Ripley Out of Gas
Like a tourist lost in Maine, Patricia Highsmith seems to have gone on a road trip with no sense of direction in this weak sequel to "The Talented Mr. Ripley". Read more
Published on May 26 2000 by Michael Rosenthal

4.0 out of 5 stars Patricia Highsmith continues the Talent
Mr. Ripley is indeed talented and so is Patricia Highsmith. Being in Thomas Ripleys world is a unique and exciting experience. Read more
Published on May 17 2000 by rockiez

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