The Talented Mr. Ripley in Mystery — the list

Ranked for listeners who want the whole story: The Talented Mr. Ripley in mystery.

Now a Netflix Seriesn It’s here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith’s five-recording Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied for being a “sissy.” Newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan, Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf, back from gallivanting in Italy. Soon Ripley’s fascination with Dickie’s debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie’s ambivalent affections for Marge, a charming American dilettante, and Ripley begins a deadly game.n “Sinister and strangely alluring,” (Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly) The Talented Mr. Ripley serves as an hard to shake introduction to this smooth confidence man,

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