Collected Stories

Ruth Rendell

ISBN 10: 034535995X / ISBN 13: 9780345359957

Published by Ballantine Books/Ballantine Books, Inc./A Divison of Random House, Inc., New York, 1989

About this Item

536 pp. Tightly bound copy with minimal external wear.

Seller Inventory # 2iiiEd0005

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Stories
• Publisher: Ballantine Books/Ballantine Books, Inc./A Divison of Random House, Inc., New York
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 034535995X
• ISBN 13: 9780345359957
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Richard Aquan (Cover Design by); Stannislaw Fernandez (Cover Illustration by)
• Edition: 1st Ballantine Bks Ed.Aug.1989/1st Print
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction-Crime Fiction, True Crime, Mystery
  • Fiction-Fictional Novel, Literary Fiction & Novel
  • Fiction-Thriller, Suspense

About this title

Synopsis

Includes nearly forty stories from the author's first four short story collections, among them five Inspector Wexford tales and two Edgar award winners

About the Author

Ruth Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, and will be remembered as a legend in her own lifetime. Her groundbreaking debut novel, From Doon With Death, was first published in 1964 and introduced the reader to her enduring and popular detective, Inspector Reginald Wexford, who went on to feature in twenty-four of her subsequent novels. With worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, Rendell was a regular Sunday Times bestseller. Her sixty bestselling novels include police procedurals, some of which have been successfully adapted for TV, stand-alone psychological mysteries, and a third strand of crime novels under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. Very much abreast of her times, the Wexford books in particular often engaged with social or political issues close to her heart. Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer. Ruth Rendell died in May 2015. Her final novel, Dark Corners, is scheduled for publication in October 2015