A Spot of Folly: Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem
Author(s): Ruth Rendell
Crime Thriller Mystery | Summer Reading Guide 2017/18
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
Product Information
Elegant and chilling - nine previously uncollected and unpublished short stories from a master of psychological suspense.
'A literary phenomenon' Guardian 'By any measure she was an enormously talented writer' Telegraph
General Fields
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- : Profile Books Ltd
- : Profile Books Ltd
- : 0.47
- : 01 October 2017
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 November 2017
- : books
Special Fields
- : 240
- : 1117
- : Hardback
- : Ruth Rendell