A spot of folly : ten and a quarter new tales of murder and mayhem / Ruth Rendell.

By:

Rendell, Ruth, 1930-2015 [author.]

Contributor(s):

Hannah, Sophie, 1971- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Profile Books, 2017.Description: XI, 212 pagina's ; 24 cmISBN:

9781788160148
1788160142

Genre/Form:

Suspense fiction.

Scope and content: A businessman boasts about cheating on his wife, only to find his own back to the wall. A beautiful country rectory reverberates to the echo of a historical murder. A compulsive liar finds herself caught out by an act of impulsive revenge. Atmospheric, mysterious and never predictable, these are among the nine short stories of dark deeds and heart-stopping suspense collected here for the first time. Pull the curtains, settle into a chair and read on as Ruth Rendell turns the screw of psychological suspense in her inimitable style. The stories are: A Spot of Folly; An Irony of Hate; The Haunting of Shawley Rectory; A Drop Too Much; Paradise; The Thief; The Long Corridor of Time; In the Time of his Prosperity and Trebuchet

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Fiction	Waimate Event Centre - Long term storage	Fiction	REND (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan	Not For Loan		A00667034

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A businessman boasts about cheating on his wife, only to find his own back to the wall. A beautiful country rectory reverberates to the echo of a historical murder. A compulsive liar finds herself caught out by an act of impulsive revenge. Atmospheric, mysterious and never predictable, these are among the nine short stories of dark deeds and heart-stopping suspense collected here for the first time. Pull the curtains, settle into a chair and read on as Ruth Rendell turns the screw of psychological suspense in her inimitable style. The stories are: A Spot of Folly; An Irony of Hate; The Haunting of Shawley Rectory; A Drop Too Much; Paradise; The Thief; The Long Corridor of Time; In the Time of his Prosperity and Trebuchet

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