Patricia Highsmith at 100 How the author’s chilling stories of murder have fascinated filmmakers for decades

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Highsmith’s murderous con artist in The Talented Mr Ripley has become so well-known that he is often a point of reference for any real-life killers with a smattering of charm. As we enter the centenary of the writer’s birth, Geoffrey Macnab dissects the many film adaptations of her books

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