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Tom Ripley passes his leisured days at his French country estate tending the dahlias, practicing the harpsichord, and enjoying the company of his lovely wife, Heloise. Never mind the bloodstains on the basement floor.But some new neighbors have moved to Villeperce: the Pritchards, just arrived from America. they are a …

Connoisseur of art, harpsichord aficionado, gardener extraordinaire, and genius of improvisational murder, the inimitable Tom Ripley finds his complacency shaken when he is scorned at a posh gala. While an ordinary psychopath might repay the insult with some mild act of retribution, what Ripley has in mind is far more …

Small g: a Summer Idyll is the final novel by American writer Patricia Highsmith before her death in 1995; it was published posthumously.

Strangers on a Train is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith about two men who meet and agree to "trade" murders so that neither will be a suspect in the death of their respective victim. It was adapted as a film in 1951 by director Alfred Hitchcock. It has subsequently been adapted several times in …