The Keys to the Street

Ruth RENDELL

ISBN 10: 0091791901 / ISBN 13: 9780091791902

Published by Hutchinson, 1996

About this Item

First UK edition with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. The book is in very good condition for its age. Bumped at head and tail of book spine.   Some tanning to pages.  The dust jacket is complete and still shows the price.  some creasing at top of jacket spine to correspond with bump. SYNOPSIS:  "Mary Jago had donated her own bone marrow to save the life of someone she didn't know. And this generous act led directly to the bitter break-up of her affair with Alistair. But the man whose life she had saved would change Mary's life in a way she could never have imagined; where a young woman's life is in danger both from the middle class world she knows and another world of the dispossessed and deranged." IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Keys to the Street
• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091791901
• ISBN 13: 9780091791902
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Physical description; 310 p. ; 24 cm. Notes; Not price-clipped and 1st printing. Summary; From the author of A DEMON IN MY VIEW, SIMISOLA and BLOOD LINES, a mystery novel in which a young woman donates her bone marrow to save a person she does not know. But soon the grateful recipient will arrive on the woman's doorstep and change her life forever. Subjects; English fiction - 20th century. English fiction. Crime & mystery. Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General. Fiction / Crime.

Review

Discovering Ruth Rendell late must be like discovering Mozart late: any regrets for time wasted are overwhelmed by the pleasure of having so many treats to choose from. She writes mysteries about Inspector Wexford and suspense thrillers about what happens when people's lives accidently collide. This new book falls into the thriller category: in the first few pages we meet a large group of people living in and around London's Regents Park. There are the homeless, whose hardships are added to when a murderer begins to decimate their ranks; a barely-restrained lunatic who works as a dog-walker; a drug dealer and his violent helper; and Rendell's central character, Mary Jago, a gentle young woman whose courageous charity brings her lots of trouble. The best recent Wexford mystery is Simisola; other recommended Rendells include: From Doon With Death, The Tree of Hands, An Unkindness of Ravens and The Brimstone Wedding (written under her Barbara Vine alter ego).