How the creator of The Talented Mr Ripley came close to murder herself

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How the creator of The Talented Mr Ripley came close to murder herself

Patricia Highsmith was so enamoured with Tom Ripley – currently being played by Andrew Scott in the Netflix adaptation – that she’d sign letters using his name and describe murder as a ‘kind of making love’. But, as her biographer Andrew Wilson discovered, her most famous killer was a cover for her own darkest thoughts...