Ripley's Game Author:Patricia Highsmith Connoisseur of art, harpsichord aficionado, gardener extraordinaire, and genius of improvisational murder, the inimitable Tom Ripley finds his complacency shaken when he is scorned at a posh gala. While an ordinary psychopath might repay the insult with some mild act of retribution, what Ripley has in mind is far more subtle, and infinitely more... more » sinister. A social slight doesn't warrant murder of course-- just a chain of events that may lead to it.« less