Thirteen Steps Down

Rendell, Ruth

ISBN 10: 0091799759 / ISBN 13: 9780091799755

Published by Hutchinson,, 2004

About this Item

Hardback. First edition, first printing with complete numberline. 314pp. A stand-alone crime novel published on the 40th anniversary of Ruth Rendell's first work being published. A publisher's label to front front commemorates this. Pages tanned. Slightly soften to spine ends, else very clean, bright and neat. Not price clipped. Very good copy in like dust jacket Very good copy in like dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 25140

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thirteen Steps Down
• Publisher: Hutchinson,
• Publication Date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0091799759
• ISBN 13: 9780091799755
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

Author Ruth Rendell Publisher Hutchinson London, 2004. Psychological thriller Clover: Hard cover

From the Inside Flap

From the multi-award-winning author of The Babes in the Wood and The Rottweiler, a chilling new novel about obsession, superstition, and violence, set in Rendell's darkly atmospheric London.
Mix Cellini (which he pronounces with an 'S' rather than a 'C') is superstitious about the number 13. In musty old St. Blaise House, where he is the lodger, there are thirteen steps down to the landing
below his rooms, which he keeps spick and span. His elderly landlady, Gwendolen Chawcer, was born in St. Blaise House, and lives her life almost exclusively through her library of books, so cannot see the decay and neglect around her.
The Notting Hill neighbourhood has changed radically over the last fifty years, and 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious John Christie committed a series of foul murders, has been torn down.
Mix is obsessed with the life of Christie and his small library is composed entirely of books on the subject. He has also developed a passion for a beautiful model who lives nearby -- a woman who would not look at him twice.
Both landlady and lodger inhabit weird worlds of their own. But when reality intrudes into Mix's life, a long pent-up violence explodes.