The Fever Tree and Other Stories

Rendell, Ruth

ISBN 10: 0091497302 / ISBN 13: 9780091497309

Published by Hutchinson, London, UK, 1982

About this Item

First printing. Firmly bound in clean black cloth boards with very good corners and spine ends. Silver titling to spine. Text pages and eps are all clean with no markings or inscriptions. D/J is price clipped o/w with no major damages. Has been protected in a removable clear cover. Despatched same or next working day in protective packaging.

Seller Inventory # 012414

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fever Tree and Other Stories
• Publisher: Hutchinson, London, UK
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091497302
• ISBN 13: 9780091497309
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 354 grams

About this title

Synopsis

In this collection of eleven stories, murder is committed for reasons of fear, jealously, cupidity, and out of sheer compulsion, while the settings include an African game park, a sinister ruined cemetery, an East Anglian seaside resort, and the gloomy purlieus of Epping Forest.

About the Author

Ruth Rendell has won many awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon in My View; a second Edgar in 1984 from the Mystery Writers of America for the best short story, 'The New Girl Friend'; and a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986. She was also the winner of the 1990 Sunday Times Literary award, as well as the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.