Discuss the below:
LA Confidential and The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Q1. Citing five relevant passages from LA Confidential, illustrate how it represents features of "Transgressions and Pathology" (Horsley, Chapter).
Q2. How are Patricia Highsmith's novels "a blackly comic manipulation of the basic ingredients of the crime fiction genre"? Locate your discussion in five examples from The Talented Mr. Ripley.