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Thirteen Steps Down

Ruth Rendell

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English
Arrow
01 July 2005
A psychological masterpiece from the world's greatest living crime thriller writer. Adapted into a critically acclaimed two-part ITV thriller, broadcast in August 2012.

A classic Rendellian loner, Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number 13. Living in a decaying house in Notting Hill, Mix is obsessed with 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious John Christie committed a series of foul murders. He is also infatuated with a beautiful model who lives nearby - a woman who would not look at him twice.

Mix's landlady, Gwendolen Chawcer is equally reclusive - living her life through her library of books.

Both landlady and lodger are caught up in their own psychologically twisted parallel worlds. But when reality intrudes into Mix's life, a long pent-up violence explodes.
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Imprint:   Arrow
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 178mm,  Width: 110mm,  Spine: 24mm
Weight:   213g
ISBN:   9780099474326
ISBN 10:   0099474328
Pages:   400
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Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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; 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.

Reviews for Thirteen Steps Down

If Ruth Rendell were not slotted into the category of writer of mystery novels, she would have won the Booker long ago * Books of the Year, Evening Standard * One of her darkest and best. * Literary Review * It's impossible to read the terrors abroad in her shabby streetscapes without total emotional involvement. * Sunday Times * Rendell's eerie capacity to comprehend disturbed criminal minds continues to astonish. * The Times * Ruth Rendell is back to her creepy best. * Daily Mail *


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