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Collected Stories

Three classic Ruth Rendell stories: Means of Evil, The Fallen Curtain andThe Fever Tree.

Ruth Rendell is unequalled in her ability to weave stories that challenge our preconceptions and prejudices. From Wexford and Burden's investigation of a wife's apparent suicide, with all the evidence pointing to the husband in Means of Evilto the unsettling psychology behind a man's friendship with a boy in The Fallen Curtainand the paranoia that plagues two people who no longer know how to trust, in The Fever Tree.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 536 pages

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