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Like any small community, Linchester has its intrigues: love affairs, money problems, unhappy marriages. But the gossip is elevated to new heights when young Patrick Selby dies on the very night of his beautiful wife's birthday party.The whole neighbourhood was there, witness to the horrible attack of wasp stings Patrick suffered at the end of the evening.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Ruth Rendell
- First published
- 1965
- Pages
- 184
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Arrow Books Ltd
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- French, Spanish, Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9789721008793
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“HE WAS NINE.”
Ruth Barbara Rendell is an English crime author (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Rendell>Wikipedia</a>).
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