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Ruth Rendell


Ruth Rendell is the author of Road Rage, The Keys to the Street, Bloodlines, Simisola, and The Crocodile Bird. She is the winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award. She is also the recipient of three Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America and four Gold Daggers from Great Britain’s Crime Writers Association. In 1997, she was named a life peer in the House of Lords. Ruth Rendell also writes mysteries under the name of Barbara Vine, of which A Dark Adapted Eye is the most famous. She lives in England.

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Archie and Archie
Written by Ruth Rendell

Hardcover | 80 pages | Bodley Head | Juvenile Fiction
978-1-78230-005-2 (1-78230-005-8)

December 24, 2013 | $16.95



A charming story of the special friendship between a cat and a dog for younger readers, from bestselling author Ruth Rendell.
     Archie the cat and Archie the dog live next door to each other on a street full of feline friends and foes. Read about their adventures -- including Archie the...


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The Saint Zita Society
Written by Ruth Rendell

Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-67167-5 (0-385-67167-9)

December 24, 2013 | $16.95

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The Saint Zita Society
Written by Ruth Rendell

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385671675
Our Price: $16.95
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Life in the well-manicured London locale of Hexam Place is not as placid and orderly as it appears. Behind the tranquil gardens and polished entryways, relationships between servants and their employers are set to combust.

Henry, the handsome valet to Lord Studley, is sleeping with both the Lord's wife and his university-age...



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The Rottweiler
Written by Ruth Rendell

Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Suspense; Fiction
978-0-385-68076-9 (0-385-68076-7)

June 4, 2013 | $17.95

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The Rottweiler
Written by Ruth Rendell

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385680769
Our Price: $17.95
   Quantity: 1 
(Available June 4, 2013)


A richly populated, immensely enjoyable tale of a serial killer preying on young women in an ethnic London neighborhood--Ruth Rendell at her very best.
 
The first victim had bite marks on her neck so the London papers nicknamed her killer, "The Rottweiler." He has been stalking the small and diverse London...



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The Vault
Written by Ruth Rendell

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-67164-4 (0-385-67164-4)

December 18, 2012 | $19.95

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The Vault
Written by Ruth Rendell

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385671644
Our Price: $19.95
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The impossible has happened. Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired. He and his wife now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and a coachhouse in Hampstead belonging to their actress daughter, Sheila. For all the benefits of a more relaxed way of life, Wexford misses being the law.

But a chance meeting in...



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The Saint Zita Society
Written by Ruth Rendell

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-67165-1 (0-385-67165-2)

August 28, 2012 | $22.95

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The Saint Zita Society
Written by Ruth Rendell

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385671651
Our Price: $22.95
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Life in the well-manicured London locale of Hexam Place is not as placid and orderly as it appears. Behind the tranquil gardens and polished entryways, relationships between servants and their employers are set to combust.

Henry, the handsome valet to Lord Studley, is sleeping with both the Lord's wife and his university-age...



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The Saint Zita Society
Written by Ruth Rendell

eBook | 304 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-67166-8 (0-385-67166-0)

August 28, 2012 | $13.99

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The Saint Zita Society
Written by Ruth Rendell

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385671668
Our Price: $13.99


Life in the well-manicured London locale of Hexam Place is not as placid and orderly as it appears. Behind the tranquil gardens and polished entryways, relationships between servants and their employers are set to combust.

Henry, the handsome valet to Lord Studley, is sleeping with both the Lord's wife and his university-age...



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Tigerlily's Orchids
Written by Ruth Rendell

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-66890-3 (0-385-66890-2)

December 27, 2011 | $19.95

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Tigerlily's Orchids
Written by Ruth Rendell

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385668903
Our Price: $19.95
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From the incomparable, award-winning Ruth Rendell — "the grand dame of British crime fiction" (The Gazette) —comes her latest psychological thriller.

When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat he invites everyone in his building. The party will be one everyone remembers. But not for the right reasons...

Living opposite,...

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The Vault
Written by Ruth Rendell

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-67162-0 (0-385-67162-8)

November 22, 2011 | $22.95

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The Vault
Written by Ruth Rendell

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385671620
Our Price: $22.95
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Wessex is retired -- or would be, if murder and danger would only leave him alone.

The impossible has happened. Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired. He and his wife now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and a coachhouse in Hampstead belonging to their actress daughter, Sheila. For all the benefits of...

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The Vault
Written by Ruth Rendell

eBook | pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-67163-7 (0-385-67163-6)

November 22, 2011 | $14.99

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The Vault
Written by Ruth Rendell

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385671637
Our Price: $14.99


Wessex is retired -- or would be, if murder and danger would only leave him alone.

The impossible has happened. Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired. He and his wife now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and a coachhouse in Hampstead belonging to their actress daughter, Sheila. For all the benefits of...

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Ghost Stories
Written by Montague Rhodes James
Selected by Ruth Rendell

Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Vintage Classics | Fiction
978-0-09-956056-2 (0-09-956056-9)

October 17, 2011 | $19.95



Malignant forces and supernatural visitors haunt this selection of superbly spooky tales.

M. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a genre. James harnesses the power of suggestion to move from a recognisable world to one that is...


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Tigerlily's Orchids
Written by Ruth Rendell

Hardcover | 288 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66888-0 (0-385-66888-0)

December 28, 2010 | $32.95

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Tigerlily's Orchids
Written by Ruth Rendell

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385668880
Our Price: $32.95
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From the incomparable, award-winning Ruth Rendell — "the grand dame of British crime fiction" (The Gazette) —comes her latest psychological thriller.

When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat he invites everyone in his building. The party will be one everyone remembers. But not for the right reasons...

Living opposite,...

Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

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Tigerlily's Orchids
Written by Ruth Rendell

eBook | 288 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66889-7 (0-385-66889-9)

December 28, 2010 | $9.99

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Tigerlily's Orchids
Written by Ruth Rendell

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385668897
Our Price: $9.99


From the incomparable, award-winning Ruth Rendell — "the grand dame of British crime fiction" (The Gazette) —comes her latest psychological thriller.

When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat he invites everyone in his building. The party will be one everyone remembers. But not for the right reasons...

Living opposite,...

Also available as a hardcover and a trade paperback.

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The Monster in the Box
Written by Ruth Rendell

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-66887-3 (0-385-66887-2)

December 7, 2010 | $19.95

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The Monster in the Box
Written by Ruth Rendell

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385668873
Our Price: $19.95
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Inspector Wexford returns in his most surprising case yet

"He had never told anyone. The strange relationship, if it could be called that, had gone on for years, decades, and he had never breathed a word about it. He had kept silent because he knew no one would believe him. None of...

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End in Tears
Written by Ruth Rendell

eBook | pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-67392-1 (0-385-67392-2)

July 30, 2010 | $9.99

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End in Tears
Written by Ruth Rendell

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385673921
Our Price: $9.99


The award-winning author of Babes in the Woods and The Rottweiler brings us another gripping Inspector Wexford novel.

A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while...

One particular member of the...

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The Water's Lovely
Written by Ruth Rendell

eBook | pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Suspense
978-0-385-67393-8 (0-385-67393-0)

July 16, 2010 | $9.99

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The Water's Lovely
Written by Ruth Rendell

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385673938
Our Price: $9.99


The award-winning author of The Babes in the Wood and The Rottweiler brings us another terrifically paced, richly drawn novel of suspense and psychological intrigue.

Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream always...

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