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Set in and around London's Regents Park, where the city's wealthiest, poorest, kindest, and most vicious citizens all cross paths, this newest novel by the Edgar and Gold Dagger-winning author of Crocodile Bird tells of the deadly thanks a young woman risks receiving in return for an act of selfless generosity.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and earnest.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Ruth Rendell
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Chivers Word for Word Audio Books, Bookcassette
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- German, French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781561003259
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“Iron spikes surmount each of the gates into the park, twenty-seven of them on some, eighteen or eleven on others.”
Ruth Barbara Rendell is an English crime author (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Rendell>Wikipedia</a>).
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