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The Fever Tree and Other Stories

by Ruth Rendell · 1982

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In this collection of eleven stories, murder is committed for reasons of fear, jealously, cupidity, and out of sheer compulsion, while the settings include an African game park, a sinister ruined cemetery, an East Anglian seaside resort, and the gloomy purlieus of Epping Forest.

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mysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thiscrimecrimeMore like thisLess of thisthrillerthrillerMore like thisLess of thispsychological thrillerpsychological thrillerMore like thisLess of this
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1980s1980sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 192 pages
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