The Fever Tree and Other Stories

Rendell, Ruth

ISBN 10: 0091497302 / ISBN 13: 9780091497309

Published by Hutchinson, 1982

About this Item

First edition UK hardback, 1982 Hutchinson. The book is in fine condition, the dustjacket is in fine condition. Not price clipped. Slight fading to the spine.

Seller Inventory # 5831

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fever Tree and Other Stories
• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091497302
• ISBN 13: 9780091497309
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern First Editions
  • Crime Fiction

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.