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Rendell, Ruth Collected Stories
Pantheon Books 1987 0394569423 / 9780394569420 First American Edition Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine
Near-new copy - Stated First American Edition - Price inside dustcover: $19.95 NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages - 537 pages - NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Dustcover shows slight wear (NO tears) - Book is in Fine Condition. - From The Critics Publishers Weekly Three MWA Edgars and her home country's top honors as well as critical raves symbolize the British author's stature as a versatile inventor of suspenseful tales. This anthology contains 38 stories reprinted from previous collections, several featuring Inspector Wexford, in exemplars of the police procedural. In ``Achilles Heel,'' Wexford is on holiday in Yugoslavia but distracted from the charms of the shimmering Adriatic Sea and Dubrovnik's lovely garden spots. Alerted to the conduct of fellow Britishers, Philip and Iris Nyman, the inspector reveals astonishing powers of observation that helped him solve a nasty crime. In other stories about ``ordinary'' people, Rendell's perceptions unveil sordid realities lurking beneath respectable facades. ``Divided We Stand'' concerns sisters whose bedridden mother constantly demands attentions that exhaust her spinster daughter Pauline. Marjorie, the other daughter, lives comfortably and selfishly with her family until the news that Pauline plans to marry, leaving the old woman to Marjorie's untender care. The denouement is a psychological stunner that few writers can rival.
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Vine, Barbara (Ruth Rendell Writing As) The Brimstone Wedding
New York, New York, U.S.A. Harmony Books 1995 0517703394 / 9780517703397 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or dustcover clippings. Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears. 330 pages. Synopsis One of the most consistently compelling writers in contemporary fiction is back with a wise and unsettling tale of the power and the poison of love. "It's crazy thinking I can tell her," says Genevieve Warner, thirty-two years old, thirteen years into a loveless marriage, and recently swept into her first passionate love affair. "She's so old. She'll have forgotten what sex is." But Stella Newland, the gracious, dignified, dying woman who Genevieve cares for in an English nursing home, has not forgotten. She knows all about love: its promises, its betrayals, its sometimes deadly consequences. She learned her lessons thirty years ago in a country house she owned, and owns still. When Genevieve confides in Stella, the old woman reciprocates by giving Genevieve the key to the now forlorn house, and by telling this young woman who will be her last friend, in the few minutes a day her failing strength allows, the story of her own erotic entanglement in adultery and worse, much worse. Annotation Both a finely crafted mystery and a disturbingly honest depiction of the kinship between love and madness, The Brimstone Wedding tells an unsettling story about the power and the poison of love. A gracious, dignified woman, who's dying in an English nursing home, reveals the secrets of her erotic past to her young caretaker.
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