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With deceptive economy in these nine short stories, Ruth Rendell indicates hidden depths in ordinary events and creates a sense of profound unease. The stories are:
* A Pair of Yellow Lilies
* Paperwork
* Mother's Help
* Long Live the Queen
* Dying Happy
* The Copper Peacock
* Weeds
* The Fish-Sitter
* An Unwanted Woman
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About the Author:
Ruth Rendell is the recipient of several awards, including three Edgars and four Gold Daggers from the UK’s Crime Writers’ Association. Simisola, Blood Lines, Keys to the Street, and The Brimstone Wedding (written as Barbara Vine) are available from Brilliance Audio. She lives in England.
From Kirkus Reviews:
Nine new short stories from the prolific, impressive Rendell- -but an underpar batch this time, with no top-notch entries and quite a few clinkers. Many of the pieces here begin seductively, with an arresting Rendell character-sketch or psychological situation, only to peter out disappointingly. ``Paperwork'' has a fine gothic setup--girl raised by cold grandparents in a great manse--that goes nowhere. The title story, about a writer's snobbish attitude toward a cleaning-woman, shifts awkwardly from subtle insight to unconvincing melodrama. Two items--the Maugham-manqu‚ ``Dying Happy,'' the Roald Dahl-ish ``The Fish-Sitter''--are barely more than anecdotes. Only two stories offer solid, if obvious, suspense: the creepy ``Mother's Help,'' about a straying husband's homicidal use of his precocious children; and ``An Unwanted Woman,'' in which Wexford and Burden (Rendell's regular sleuths) investigate the suicide of a lonely widow who had recently befriended a teenage runaway. Lesser work from a major talent; readable but unpersuasive. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherChivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0745133835
- ISBN 13 9780745133836
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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