A Dark Adapted Eye

Barbara Vine [ Ruth Rendell]

ISBN 10: 0553051431 / ISBN 13: 9780553051438

Published by Bantam Books, 1986

About this Item

First Printing of the First American edition bound in blue paper-covered boards with dark blue cloth backstrip, condition Near Fine clean tight and unmarked with only very slight color bleed of dark blue dye [due to water] onto the bottom of the rear endpapers [see photo], not penetrating the text block; dust jacket not price-clipped and protected in plastic, light rubs to joints at head and heel of spine, slight color bleed of the blue onto the inside of the jacket, at top and bottom edges near the spine.

Seller Inventory # 022413

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Dark Adapted Eye
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553051431
• ISBN 13: 9780553051438
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Faith Severn, the niece of executed murderess Vera Hillyard, strives to protect her family from the terrible truth when writer Daniel Stewart begins to probe into the murder that took place thirty years earlier

Review

Writing under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, Ruth Rendell departs from her famous detective team of Wexford and Burden to tell a gripping tale of family madness. Vera Hillyard is a domineering and possessive woman who strives for obsessive control over a malicious older son, a youngest son who is--or isn't--illegitimate, and her younger sister, Eden, who secretly seeks to escape Vera's grasp and instead provokes a murder. This winner of the 1986 Edgar Award for best mystery novel belongs to the genre of old murders reconsidered and the question of who did what to whom and why is teasingly left unresolved.