FIRST AMERICAN EDITION AND PRINTING. The collected stories of this critically acclaimed, major award-winning, bestselling author. "The same eerie imagination that has established Ruth Rendell as one of the world's outstanding mystery novelists permeates this first-ever omnibus of her shorter fiction. It is a vintage Rendell retrospective-thirty-eight classic tales of murder and the macabre, including the two stories for which she has received the Edgar Award, "The Fallen Curtain" and "The New Girl Friend." 536 pages. Minor bumping to top and bottom of DJ spine, elsewise a fine copy! LF.

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Title: Collected Stories
Publisher: Pantheon Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1988
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0394569423
ISBN 13: 9780394569420
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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

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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

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