Re: RARA-AVIS: Highsmith/Ripley
Mari Hall (found.dead.in.texas@airmail.net)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 16:36:51 -0600
Has anyone read Patricia Highsmith, Ripley???
I throughly enjoyed re-reading these four books written over a
24 year
period, starting in 1956. (I found some English reprinted
imports with
nice covers in hardback for about $2.00 US each and snapped
them all
up). This book commences the series and introduces Tom Ripley,
a
nere-do-well who ends up being a "crook" dealing in art works,
but more
of that later. Alfred Hitchcock loved the work of Highsmith,
who was,
BTW, born in Fort Worth, Texas, but lived in England most of
her adult
life. I believe that the movie -Rope- was based on the Ripley
character.
Your turn out there.
--
whose DOROTHYL nom is Kate Warne the ex-Pinkerton in
The Woman With the Rose Tattoo by Mari Hall
See y'all at Left Coast Crime 8
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