Ruth Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, and will be remembered as a legend in her own lifetime. Her groundbreaking debut novel, From Doon With Death, was first published in 1964 and introduced the reader to her enduring and popular detective, Inspector Reginald Wexford, who went on to feature in twenty-four of her subsequent novels.
With worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, Rendell was a regular Sunday Times bestseller. Her sixty bestselling novels include police procedurals, some of which have been successfully adapted for TV, stand-alone psychological mysteries, and a third strand of crime novels under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. Very much abreast of her times, the Wexford books in particular often engaged with social or political issues close to her heart.
Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for 1976’s best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.
Ruth Rendell died in May 2015. Her final novel, Dark Corners, is scheduled for publication in October 2015
A Ruth Rendell mystery, first published in 1979 and shortlisted for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best crime novel in 1980.
Alan Groombridge is trapped. Husband to a woman he doesn't like, father to two children he never wanted, and manager of a tiny branch of the Anglian-Victoria bank, he is doomed to a life of domestic boredom and tedious routine. All that keeps him afloat is his one fantasy: stealing enough of the bank's money to allow him just one year of freedom - one year in which to live a different sort of life.
But one day the bank is robbed, the manager and cashier disappear and what was once a place of dull and dreary repetition becomes the scene of a brutal, chilling nightmare that might never end...
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First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall.NOT price-clipped. Physical description; 215 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects; Fiction in English. Murder mysteries. Classic detective fiction. Psychological thrillers. British mystery authors. 3 Kg. N° de réf. du vendeur 468750
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Vendeur : Longs Peak Book Company, Loveland, CO, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. PRICE REDUCED! Considered one of Rendell's most haunting psychological tales, this introduces a bank manager who uses a robbery of his bank to cover his theft of bank money and his escape from a horrible family life. This copy is in excellent condition, a first British printing simply signed by Rendell on the title page with the bright, price-intact dustjacket in clear, mylar protection. The book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping.PRICE REDUCED! Signed by Author(s). N° de réf. du vendeur 001072
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