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‘Murder is a kind of making love’: The strange life of Patricia Highsmith, the author behind The Talented Mr Ripley
“Patricia Highsmith was Tom Ripley without the charm ... She became obsessed with snails, a fascination she bequeathed to Vic ...
Inside the life of the 'unlovable and unloving' Patricia Highsmith: Author of The Talented Mr Ripley was dubbed cruel and 'relentlessly ugly', hated men and said th…
She carried 30 snails around in her handbag and would tip them out at dinner parties before watching them as they slithered ...