THE PATRICIA HIGHSMITH BBC RADIO COLLECTION

THE BOY WHO FOLLOWED RIPLEY

When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripley's French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he'd left behind: a seedy underworld involving kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Ripley becomes the boy's protector as friendship develops between the young man with a guilty conscience and the older one with no conscience at all.

RIPLEY UNDER GROUND

The Buckmaster Gallery is staging an exhibition, but now an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake. Ripley needs the perfect solution to keep his role in the fraud a secret and his reputation clean but not everyone's nerves are as steady as his. Especially when it comes to murder...

RIPLEY UNDER WATER

Tom Ripley is a man who is fastidious about everything except murder, but he is disturbed that the Pritchards, a new American couple in the village, seem to be well informed about his past, and flaunt the knowledge. He is determined that these intruders will muddy still waters at their peril..

RIPLEY'S GAME

Tom Ripley detests murder - unless it is absolutely necessary. If possible he prefers someone else to do the dirty work; in this case, a victim of a fatal disease, with no criminal record, who will murder for a reward, in order to provide for his young widow and child.

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN

A chance meeting on a train and a rash conversation can lead to all sorts of trouble... From the moment that he constructs a perfect alibi, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of his personality with that of his conspirator.

THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY

Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law when an unexpected acquaintance offers him the chance to start over. Ripley wants money, success, and the good life, and he's willing to kill for it. When his newfound happiness is threatened, his response is as swift as it is shocking.