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The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

  • FINISHED
  • Finished May 2018
  • First published 1955

crime thriller

A young drifter in New York is sent to Italy to bring a rich man’s son home and takes over the son’s life instead.   It is a psychological crime novel told from the con man’s side.