Ripley Under Ground is a psychological thriller by Patricia Highsmith, the second novel in her Ripliad series. It was published in June 1970.

Jun 1, 1970 · It's been six years since Ripley murdered Dickie Greenleaf and inherited his money. Now, in Ripley Under Ground (1970), he lives in a beautiful French villa, surrounded by a world-class art collection and married to a pharmaceutical heiress.

Sep 17, 2008 · Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction draws them into Berlin's seamy underworld. Ripley is confronted by a snooping American couple obsessed with the disappearance …

Sep 1, 1992 · In a mesmerizing novel that coolly subverts all traditional notions of literary justice, Ripley enthralls us even as we watch him perform acts of pure and unspeakable evil. Patricia Highsmith (1921 – 1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and grew up in New York.

Apr 15, 2021 · "You're always good on ideas, Tom..." An American art collector is claiming that the expensive masterpiece he bought is a fake. He wants to meet with the artist - but Tom Ripley knows that artist no longer exits. Ripley needs to hide his role in the fraud, and keep his colleague's mouth shut.

Nov 11, 2024 · An art forgery scheme he set up a few years ago is threatening to unravel: a nosy American is asking questions and Ripley must go to London to put a stop to it.

Patricia Highsmith’s “Ripley Under Ground” brilliantly reinforces the complexity of Tom Ripley’s character. The novel examines themes of identity, morality, and deception while marinating in a sense of dread.

'Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing.'—Frank Rich, Ripley Under Ground, Patricia Highsmith, 9780393332131

Ripley needs to hide his role in the fraud, and keep his colleague's mouth shut. But not everyone's nerves are as steady as his, especially when it comes to murder. The second in Highsmith's Ripley series, Ripley Under Ground is set six years after the events of The Talented Mr Ripley. 'Patricia Highsmith is unrivalled' Daily Telegraph

In Ripley Under Ground (1970), an art forgery goes awry and Ripley is threatened with exposure; in The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship...