The Lake of Darkness

Rendell, Ruth

ISBN 10: 0385170262 / ISBN 13: 9780385170260

Published by New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1980

About this Item

Stated First Edition, NO remainder makrs, about Fine in Very Good D.J.with small loss and crease at top of back panel near the spine.(VVTV2).

Seller Inventory # ABE-3523168248

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lake of Darkness
• Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385170262
• ISBN 13: 9780385170260
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • detective fiction, mysteries

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Synopsis

Man wins the lottery and decides to share his good fortune with five strangers, one of whom turns out to be a contract killer who misunderstands.

From the Inside Flap

Martin Urban is a quiet bachelor with a comfortable life, free of worry and distractions. When he unexpectedly comes into a small fortune, he decides to use his newfound wealth to help out those in need. Finn also leads a quiet life, and comes into a little money of his own. Normally, their paths would never have crossed. But Martin's ideas about who should benefit from his charitable impulses yield some unexpected results, and soon the good intentions of the one become fatally entangled with the mercenary nature of the other. In the Lake of Darkness, Ruth Rendell takes the old adage that no good deed goes unpunished to a startling, haunting conclusion.