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.
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..
A compulsive liar acts on impulse, only to be lead inexorably to disaster.
A beautiful country rectory reverberates to the echo of a historical murder.
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
