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Blood Lines: Long and Short Stories - 1st UK Edition/1st Printing
by RENDELL, Ruth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0091791863
- ISBN 13
- 9780091791865
- Seller
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Elk Grove Village, Illinois, United States
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A$35.62A$28.49
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About This Item
Hutchinson, 1995. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8x5x0. Very good plus first edition first printing thus (collection) in very good price unclipped dust jacket (lb 14.99). Binding is solid. Quick flip thru of pages revealed no writing in body of book. Jacket is nice with some shelfwear and a bit of wrinkling at top of spine. Will ship (and look great) in an archival quality clear Brodart cover. We use quality packaging materials (including boxes!) for shipping.
Synopsis
‘I think you know who killed your stepfather’ said Wexford. So begins this scintillating collection of long and short stories by Ruth Rendell. It was clear to both Wexford and Burden that Tom Peterlee was not killed for £360, but various people would have liked them to think he was… It is a case which reminds the Chief Inspector that there is only a thin line dividing the cop from the criminal. The criminal impulse may be present in the most routine or intimate situation. In this second story, Browning’s poem, ‘Porphyria’s Lover’, is the inspiration for the murderous passion. In Shreds and Shivers the accidental discovery of Amanita phalloides (a poisonous mushroom) leads to a game of Russian Roulette in a supermarket. With unerring insight and deceptive economy of style, Ruth Rendell probes behind the passions of everyday life to pinpoint the frailties, the desires and deceptions, the guilty secret of human beings.The book ends with The Strawberry Tree, a disturbingly evocative novella-length tale of lost innocence set on the island of Majorca. It is a triumphant conclusion to a collection of stories that will linger in the mind.
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- Bookseller
- Third Person Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003982
- Title
- Blood Lines: Long and Short Stories - 1st UK Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- RENDELL, Ruth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0091791863
- ISBN 13
- 9780091791865
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- 8x5x0
- X weight
- 34 oz
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