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Seller: Ramblingsid's Books, West Sussex, United KingdomRamblingsid's Books
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Hutchinson, London, 2004, hb with d/w, 1st edition (full number line), black cloth boards with gilt titles to spine, covers in near fine condition, pages beginning to yellow with age, in a near fine unclipped d/w with some very slight creasing at the edges. [Box 41].
Seller Inventory # 000556
- Title
- Thirteen Steps Down
- Author
- Rendell, Ruth
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0091799759
- ISBN 13
- 9780091799755
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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From the Inside Flap
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.
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Ramblingsid's Books
West Sussex, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since January 3, 2011
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Ramblingsid's Books is a small, independent, family business selling second hand and out of print books to our customers around the world. We pride ourselves on the quality of our service to our customers.
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