TALENTED MR. RIPLEY (THE BEST MYSTERIES OF ALL TIME) ...includes MYSTERY DIGEST by HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA - 2000

NY: Impress Mystery / Reader's Digest. Very Good. 2000. Select Editions". HARDCOVER. 8.4 X 5.7 X 0.9 inches. VERY GOOD CONDITION, clean, solid, bright ; Silver titles with silver man cover art, all on dark blue hard covers.. light blue endpapers..*****includes MYSTERY DIGEST promotional 8 page pamplet with behind the scenes info on this novel made into famous film.**** ; 287 pages; Unlike many modernist experiments, The Talented Mr. Ripley is eminently readable and is driven by a gripping chase narrative that chronicles each of Tom's calculated maneuvers of self-preservation. Highsmith was in peak form with this novel, and her ability to enter the mind of a sociopath and view the world through his disturbingly amoral eyes is a model that has spawned such latter-day serial killers as Hannibal Lecter. -- .