[1] Tom Ripley spends his days tending his garden and playing the harpsichord at his home near Fontainebleau.

Janice strikes Ripley as a victim of abuse, and the couple argue openly during his visit.

Ripley dwells on his past murders, such as that of Thomas Murchison as the result of an art forgery scheme.

The New York Times review concluded, "This is the least good of the Ripley books, one in which the distinctly undramatic climax suggests that Patricia Highsmith is no longer much involved with her criminal creation...But the title is an ingenious joke, for in the end it is not Ripley who is ever under water.

"[3] The 2009 BBC Radio 4 adaptation stars Ian Hart as Ripley, Helen Longworth as Heloise, William Hope as David Pritchard, Janice Acquah as Janice Pritchard and Caroline Guthrie as Madame Annette.