Adam and Eve and pinch me

Rendell, Ruth (1930-)

ISBN 10: 009179434X / ISBN 13: 9780091794347

Published by London : Hutchinson, 2001

About this Item

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 375 p. ; 24 cm. Notes; NOT price-clipped. First edition and first printing. Summary; A mystery surrounds three women and three men who have recently disappeared completely from their lives. There are other women too, unknown to one another, who have had relationships with a dark-haired man who is no longer around. Subjects; Missing persons - Fiction. Women - Mental health - Fiction. Crime & mystery. Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General. Fiction / Crime. Genres; Fiction. Psychological fiction. 1 Kg.

Seller Inventory # 230735

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Adam and Eve and pinch me
• Publisher: London : Hutchinson
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 009179434X
• ISBN 13: 9780091794347
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 1 kilogram

About this title

Synopsis

Adam And Eve And Pinch Me Ruth Rendell and Jerry Bauer

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