What I Learned from Tom Ripley, Bruno Antony, and Patricia Highsmith
By Mitch Silver
February 19, 2018My wife Ellen’s maiden name is Highsmith. And yes, she’s related. Which was the entire flimsy reason that I decided to read each of Aunt Pat’s five Tom Ripley thrillers. That and my love of all things Alfred Hitchcock—especially Strangers on a Train, the movie Hitch made from Patricia Highsmith’s first published novel. If you’ve…