The fever tree : and other stories / Ruth Rendell

Rendell, Ruth (1930-2015)

ISBN 10: 0091497302 / ISBN 13: 9780091497309

Published by London : Hutchinson, 1982

About this Item

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 191p ; 23 cm. Contents; The fever tree -- The dreadful day of judgement -- A glowing future -- An outside interest -- A case of coincidence -- Thornapple -- May and June -- A needle for the Devil -- Front seat -- Paintbox Place -- The wrong category. Subjects; Detective and mystery stories. Short stories in English 1945 Texts. Crime and criminals Fiction. Fiction. 1 Kg.

Seller Inventory # 407918

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The fever tree : and other stories / Ruth Rendell
• Publisher: London : Hutchinson
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091497302
• ISBN 13: 9780091497309
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Weight: 1 kilogram

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.