Overview
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These never-before-collected stories by Ruth Rendellāthe three-time Edgar Awardāwinning mistress of dark suspense and one of the most celebrated thriller writers of the twentieth centuryāare ādeliciously riveting, all the more so because Rendellās extraordinary ability to delve coolly and forensically into the dustiest nooks of the human psyche is amplified, not diminished, by the short story form. .Ā .Ā . Often the reader is taken by the throatā (The Guardian).
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In āThe Thief,ā 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 āTrebuchet.ā In the title story, a caddish boor canāt help but boast of his infidelities. A historic murder weighs heavy on the unholy reputation of a quaint local landmark in āThe Haunting of Shawley Rectory.ā And in āNever Sleep in a Bed Facing a Mirror,ā Rendell delivers a masterstroke of gasp-inducing brevity.
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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 itās little wonder Joyce Carol Oates hails Ruth Rendell as āone of the finest practitioners of her craft.ā
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This book title, A Spot of Folly (Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem), ISBN: 9781504054829, by Ruth Rendell, published by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. (November 27, 2018) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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