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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, New York : Open Road Integrated Media, 2018Copyright date: ©2017Description: 245 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1504054822
  • 9781504054829
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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 -- Trebuchet.
Summary: "Tales of mystery, madness, terrible crimes, and chilling perdition"--Back cover.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Mystery Rendell, Ruth Available 33111009276466
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A spine-tingling anthology by the New York Times -bestselling author and master of "psychological insight . . . and, not infrequently, teeth-chattering terror" ( The New York Times ).



These never-before-collected stories by Ruth Rendell--the three-time Edgar Award-winning mistress of dark suspense and one of the most celebrated thriller writers of the twentieth century--are "deliciously riveting, all the more so because Rendell's extraordinary ability to delve coolly and forensically into the dustiest nooks of the human psyche is amplified, not diminished, by the short story form. . . . Often the reader is taken by the throat" ( The Guardian ).



In "The Thief," a chance encounter with a stranger triggers the most destructive impulses in a vindictive pathological liar. A family shares an unnamable feeling of dread and a necessary denial to make it through the night in "Trebuchet." In the title story, a caddish boor can't help but boast of his infidelities. A historic murder weighs heavy on the unholy reputation of a quaint local landmark in "The Haunting of Shawley Rectory." And in "Never Sleep in a Bed Facing a Mirror," Rendell delivers a masterstroke of gasp-inducing brevity.



Here are tales of mystery, madness, terrible crimes, and chilling perdition, all dispatched with a wit so knife-edged and deviousness, so impeccably cool that it's little wonder Joyce Carol Oates hails Ruth Rendell as "one of the finest practitioners of her craft."

"Tales of mystery, madness, terrible crimes, and chilling perdition"--Back cover.

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 -- Trebuchet.

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