Death warmed up: famous for hating being famous and reputedly as relaxed in her morals as her murderous anti-hero Tom Ripley, American crime writer and long-time Swiss resident Patricia Highsmith is the subject of an intriguing new exhibition that sets out to challenge her reclusive reputation.

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Death warmed up: famous for hating being famous and reputedly as relaxed in her morals as her murderous anti-hero Tom Ripley, American crime writer and long-time Swiss resident Patricia Highsmith is the subject of an intriguing new exhibition that sets out to challenge her reclusive reputation.

Tom took a sip of his martini, looked up at the ceiling, and thought that in another few months his nerves, his patience, would be able to bear even people like this ... His reverie lasted only a few seconds, however. The loud, grating American voices forced their way into his ears again, and sank like claws into the nerves of his shoulders and his back. --Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr Ripley

When Patricia Highsmith compiled a list of 2...

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