Patricia Highsmith (Magill’s Choice: 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
Principal Series
Tom Ripley, 1955-1993.
Principal Series Character
Tom Ripley, a New Yorker, became an American expatriate at age twenty-six. Once married to the spoiled Heloise Plisson, he was also a fringe member of French high society at one time. In his small château in a village outside Paris, he leads an apparently quiet life, yet has committed several murders and managed narrow escapes from the law and those dear to his victims. Occasionally sensitive and generally witty and charming, Ripley is a bold psychopath.
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