The Copper Peacock and Other Stories - Hardcover

Rendell, Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892964650 ISBN 13: 9780892964659

Publisher: Mysterious Pr, 1991

Synopsis

Nine stories of psychological suspense plunge into the hidden depths of ordinary events when the death of a cat changes someone's life, and a scholar receives a mysterious gift from the woman he is obsessed with

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Here, from top international mystery writer Ruth Rendell, are nine new stories--one starring the astute Inspector Wexford--that turn a microscope on the tortuous pathways of the human mind and the merciless twists of fate.

Poetic justice overtakes a cocksure young thief from the public library... a dying man's wife exacts a subtle revenge when he begs to see his long-lost mistress...A perpetual failure discovers his solitary talent-homicide...The accidental death of the queenly cat Melusina locks her killer into the strange life of an old lady and her feline hierarchy...A girl's acquiescence in murder boomerangs again and again.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mysterious Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0892964650
• ISBN 13: 9780892964659
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 183