Adam And Eve And Pinch Me

Rendall, Ruth

ISBN 10: 0099426196 / ISBN 13: 9780099426196

Published by Arrow, London, 2002

About this Item

Minor reading creases. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; 442 pages; Minty Knox, 37 years old and never had a boyfriend. A shy inocent soul who's been left a house by her aunt and a few thousand in the bank. A perfect target for an unscrupulous con-man. Mass Market PB.

Seller Inventory # 18111

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Adam And Eve And Pinch Me
• Publisher: Arrow, London
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099426196
• ISBN 13: 9780099426196
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Reprint; First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good+

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Synopsis

Adam and Eve and Pinch Me went down to the river to bathe; Adam and Eve were drowned. Who was saved?' This old nursery rhyme is a favourite of Jerry Leach (if that is the name he is using at the time), a handsome ne'er do well, who sponges off women. Five women, unknown to each other, are his willing victims. One he even married once and abandoned, while promising to marry another. But, with the cruel irony he would be the first to recognize in that nursery rhyme, Jerry, almost accidentally, becomes the victim of one of his female prey.

Review

In Adam and Eve and Pinch Me, the mills of the gods appear to have ground Jock Lewis to dust--or have they? Jock's obsessive-compulsive girlfriend, Minty, thinks he was killed in a train crash and is tormented by his ghost. But the cheerfully amoral Jock--AKA Jerry Leach and Jeff Leigh, depending on which woman he's romancing--faked his death to move on to yet another unsuspecting lady. His one legal wife has swept their union hastily under the rug and married a conservative member of Parliament, who has his own urgent secrets. Jock's most recent fiancée, a successful banker, hasn't minded keeping him in the manner to which he's become accustomed--that is, until the day he doesn't come home. When his body is found in a cinema, the intersections of his past collapse in a way that destroys some lives and rebuilds others.

Adam and Eve and Pinch Me is no whodunit: the murderer is known from the outset. The suspense arises from the uncertainty of whether justice will be served. That deftly handled angle draws the reader into the book, while Ruth Rendell's famously acute insight into all forms of borderline madness makes it all so believably chilling. --Barrie Trinkle