Adam and Eve Pinch Me (Signed 1st)

Ruth Rendell

ISBN 10: 009179434X / ISBN 13: 9780091794347

Published by Hutchinson, London, 2001

About this Item

From the publisher: A mystery surrounds three women and three men who have recently disappeared completely from their lives. There are other women too, unknown to one another, who have had relationships with a dark-haired man who is no longer around. Judith Evans of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote that Rendell "puts together these disparate characters in an absorbing story that is part suspense and part psychological drama." Marcus Eliason of the Associated Press wrote that it is "worth remarking on Rendell's attention to detail and the customary steely compassion with which she explores the comedy and pain of modern life." This copy is fine in black cloth with gilt titles on the spine. No marks or damage at all. The unclipped DJ is also excellent. Signed by Rendell on the title page. . AB19.

Seller Inventory # B1228

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Adam and Eve Pinch Me (Signed 1st)
• Publisher: Hutchinson, London
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 009179434X
• ISBN 13: 9780091794347
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed/Inscribed
  • Mystery
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Adam And Eve And Pinch Me Ruth Rendell and Jerry Bauer

Review

In Adam and Eve and Pinch Me, the mills of the gods appear to have ground Jock Lewis to dust--or have they? Jock's obsessive-compulsive girlfriend, Minty, thinks he was killed in a train crash and is tormented by his ghost. But the cheerfully amoral Jock--AKA Jerry Leach and Jeff Leigh, depending on which woman he's romancing--faked his death to move on to yet another unsuspecting lady. His one legal wife has swept their union hastily under the rug and married a conservative member of Parliament, who has his own urgent secrets. Jock's most recent fiancée, a successful banker, hasn't minded keeping him in the manner to which he's become accustomed--that is, until the day he doesn't come home. When his body is found in a cinema, the intersections of his past collapse in a way that destroys some lives and rebuilds others.

Adam and Eve and Pinch Me is no whodunit: the murderer is known from the outset. The suspense arises from the uncertainty of whether justice will be served. That deftly handled angle draws the reader into the book, while Ruth Rendell's famously acute insight into all forms of borderline madness makes it all so believably chilling. --Barrie Trinkle