Author: Rendell, Ruth (1930- )
Title: Piranha to scurfy / Ruth Rendell
Description: London : Hutchinson 2000. First Edition. SIGNED by the author. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine. very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw. now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 248 pages; Physical description: 248 p. ; 24 cm. Summary: Ruth Rendell's seventh collection of short stories also includes two unpublished novellas. The long title story is about a man whose life. in a sense. is a book. There are shelves in every room. packed with titles which Ambrose Ribbon has checked pedantically for mistakes of grammar and fact. Life for Ribbon is lonely and obsessive. Rendell has created an intriguingly diverse selection of tales. united by the customary dark vision of the author. The title story is shot through with elements of the macabre. Genre: Short fiction -- Mystery -- Suspense.ISBN: 0091793475.

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