A Spot of Folly - Ten Tales of Murder and Mayhem
Verlag | Profile Books |
Auflage | 2017 |
Seiten | 224 |
Format | 15,4 x 23,3 x 2,0 cm |
Trade Paperback | |
Gewicht | 346 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 1788160339 |
EAN | 9781788160339 |
Bestell-Nr | 78816033UA |
Previously uncollected and unpublished: new short stories from a master of psychological suspense.
New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness.
Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are ten (and a quarter) of her most chillingly compelling short stories, collected here together for the first time.
In these tales, a businessman boasts about cheating on his wife, only to find the tables turned. A beautiful country rectory reverberates to the echo of a historical murder. A compulsive liar acts on impulse, only to be lead inexorably to disaster. And a wealthy man finds there is more to his wife's kidnapping than meets the eye.
Atmospheric, gripping and never predictable, this is Ruth Rendell at her inimitable best.
The stories are: Never Sleep in a Bed Facing a Mirror; A Spot of Folly; The Price of Joy; The Irony of Hate; Digby's Wives; The Haunting of Shawley Rectory; A Drop Too Much; The Thief; The Long Corridor of Time; In the Time of his Prosperity; and Trebuchet.
Introduction from Sophie Han nah.
Rezension:
'A literary phenomenon' Guardian