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Two years ago he had been a promising young novelist. Now he survived - you could hardly call it living - in a near derelict cottage with only an unhooked telephone and his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla - the bored, rich, unstable girl with everything she needed, and a husband she wanted dead. The affair was over. But the long slide into deception and violence had just begun. . .
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and spare.
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- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Ruth Rendell
- First published
- 1974
- Pages
- 205
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Chivers Word for Word Audio Books, Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- French, Spanish, und, English
- ISBN
- 9780553259766
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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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