- Mystery, suspense, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction
Stephen Whalby loves to walk the moor. He considers it his, although he and his young wife Lyn are merely tenants in a flat nearby. But the senseless and frightening murder of a young woman invades Stephen's sense of privacy and pollutes his beloved moor with suspicion and dread. And then a second murder captures his imagination in an unpredictable and fascinating way . . .
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- Author
- Ruth Rendell
- First published
- June 16, 1982
- Pages
- 239
- Publisher
- Arrow Books Ltd, Goldmann, ARROW BOOKS LTD
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- Spanish, English, Italian, German
- ISBN
- 9780099788010
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Ruth Barbara Rendell is an English crime author (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Rendell>Wikipedia</a>).
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