Victims
Across the five books, Ripley commits homicide nine times, and indirectly causes an additional four deaths.
| Novel | Direct Murder | Causes Death Indirectly |
|---|---|---|
| The Talented Mr. Ripley | Dickie Greenleaf
Freddie Miles |
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| Ripley Under Ground | Thomas Murchison | Bernard Tufts |
| Ripley's Game | Vito Marcangelo Angelo Lippari |
Jonathan Trevanny |
| The Boy Who Followed Ripley | "the Italian type kidnapper" | |
| Ripley Under Water | David Pritchard Janice Pritchard |
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Famous quotes containing the word victims:
“The Harmless Torturers. In the Bad Old Days, each torturer inflicted severe pain on one victim. Things have now changed. Each of the thousand torturers presses a button, thereby turning the switch once on each of the thousand instruments. The victims suffer the same severe pain. But none of the torturers makes any victim’s pain perceptibly worse.”
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“Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would ... be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever, not unlike the sorcerer’s apprentice who lacked the magic formula to break the spell.”
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“He was warned. And now he’s paid. Let him be buried with the other victims of human greed and folly.”
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