Author: Ruth Rendell
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307556050
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A stranger lures a child into his car with the promise of sweets. A young man spots his fiancée’s double in a public park of ill repute. An executive visits the secluded home of a former employee whose intentions are frightfully unclear. A modest soul weds the woman he rescues from suicide—only to fall victim to an unfathomable form of possessiveness... In the eleven tales gathered in The Fallen Curtain, Ruth Rendell—the grande dame of the literary mystery—lays bare the twisted inner workings of the unbalanced mind. Here are eleven tales of haunting psychological accuracy: the gesture that betrays a parent's madness, the childhood memory clouded with denial, the utterance that introduces the threat of violence in a situation as benign as a dinner date. Instantly engaging, maddeningly addictive, The Fallen Curtain testifies to the enduring talents of a master of the genre.
The Fallen Curtain
Author: Ruth Rendell
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307556050
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A stranger lures a child into his car with the promise of sweets. A young man spots his fiancée’s double in a public park of ill repute. An executive visits the secluded home of a former employee whose intentions are frightfully unclear. A modest soul weds the woman he rescues from suicide—only to fall victim to an unfathomable form of possessiveness... In the eleven tales gathered in The Fallen Curtain, Ruth Rendell—the grande dame of the literary mystery—lays bare the twisted inner workings of the unbalanced mind. Here are eleven tales of haunting psychological accuracy: the gesture that betrays a parent's madness, the childhood memory clouded with denial, the utterance that introduces the threat of violence in a situation as benign as a dinner date. Instantly engaging, maddeningly addictive, The Fallen Curtain testifies to the enduring talents of a master of the genre.
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307556050
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A stranger lures a child into his car with the promise of sweets. A young man spots his fiancée’s double in a public park of ill repute. An executive visits the secluded home of a former employee whose intentions are frightfully unclear. A modest soul weds the woman he rescues from suicide—only to fall victim to an unfathomable form of possessiveness... In the eleven tales gathered in The Fallen Curtain, Ruth Rendell—the grande dame of the literary mystery—lays bare the twisted inner workings of the unbalanced mind. Here are eleven tales of haunting psychological accuracy: the gesture that betrays a parent's madness, the childhood memory clouded with denial, the utterance that introduces the threat of violence in a situation as benign as a dinner date. Instantly engaging, maddeningly addictive, The Fallen Curtain testifies to the enduring talents of a master of the genre.
The Fallen Curtain
Author: Ruth Rendell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
The Fallen Curtain
Author: Ruth Rendell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780754013990
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Offers a collection of author's psychologically chilling murder mysteries. A wife plots her husband's psychological destruction - then his murder; a son is ruined by his mother's obsession; a man marries the woman he rescues from suicide, only to become the victim of her obsessiveness; and a family feud brings unimaginable horror.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780754013990
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Offers a collection of author's psychologically chilling murder mysteries. A wife plots her husband's psychological destruction - then his murder; a son is ruined by his mother's obsession; a man marries the woman he rescues from suicide, only to become the victim of her obsessiveness; and a family feud brings unimaginable horror.
The Fallen Curtain
Author: Ruth Rendell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780553108781
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780553108781
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Fallen Curtain
Author: Ruth Rendell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The Fallen Curtain, and Other Stories
Author: Ruth Rendell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The author has aquired a reputation for handling themes in which the subject is crime but with the emphasis on the exploration of the character and the creation of an atmosphere of unease and suspense. These are the qualities manifest in this collection of short stories. The recurrent themes are those of the consquences of conscience, of the accuser becoming the accused, of the assailant becoming the victim. In two of the stories, for example, the author deals with forms of mental disturbance, while another two cross the frontiers of the supernatual. All the tales of disquiet and unease.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The author has aquired a reputation for handling themes in which the subject is crime but with the emphasis on the exploration of the character and the creation of an atmosphere of unease and suspense. These are the qualities manifest in this collection of short stories. The recurrent themes are those of the consquences of conscience, of the accuser becoming the accused, of the assailant becoming the victim. In two of the stories, for example, the author deals with forms of mental disturbance, while another two cross the frontiers of the supernatual. All the tales of disquiet and unease.
The Vinegar Mother
Author: Ruth Rendell
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593467604
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
In this short story from Ruth Rendell’s The Fallen Curtain, an eleven year old girl joins a classmate and her family for a summer in the countryside. But what should be a dream vacation becomes something closer to a nightmare, when a neighbor delivers an unexpected gift—a vinegar mother—that reveals fault lines below the surface of a seemingly happy marriage. An ominous and unsettling story of trouble in paradise, The Vinegar Mother is an utterly gripping tale from the grande dame of the literary mystery. A Vintage Short.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593467604
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
In this short story from Ruth Rendell’s The Fallen Curtain, an eleven year old girl joins a classmate and her family for a summer in the countryside. But what should be a dream vacation becomes something closer to a nightmare, when a neighbor delivers an unexpected gift—a vinegar mother—that reveals fault lines below the surface of a seemingly happy marriage. An ominous and unsettling story of trouble in paradise, The Vinegar Mother is an utterly gripping tale from the grande dame of the literary mystery. A Vintage Short.
The Fallen Leaves
Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387311966
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387311966
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
McClure's Magazine
Our lady of tears. A novel
Author: James Leith Derwent
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description