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Anyone who has lost such a sum should apply to the phone number below.'This note would link the lives of a number of very different people - each with their obsessions, problems and dreams and despairs.

The long title story is about a man whose life, in a sense, is a book. The second novella, High Mysterious Union, explores a strange, erotic universe in a dream-like corner of rural England, and illustrates very atmospherically what range Ruth Rendell has as a writer.

Stealing things from people who had upset her was something Polly did quite a lot. There was her Aunt Pauline, a girl at school, a boyfriend who left her. And there was the man on the plane... Humiliated and scared by a total stranger Polly does what she always does. She steals something. But she never could have imagined that her desire for revenge would have such terrifying results. Quick Reads are brilliant, short books by bestselling wr...

Wanneer Carl een pakje afslankpillen aan zijn goede vriendin Stacey verkoopt, en daarmee onbedoeld haar dood veroorzaakt, zet hij een opeenvolging van catastrofale gebeurtenissen in gang. Het begint met uitvluchten, gaat over in leugens en eindigt met moord... In Rendells donkere verhaal vol psychologische spanning komen zaken aan bod als persoonsverwisseling, ontvoering en blackmail, en het brengt een cast van personages ten tonele die zo ...

He was young, arrogant, wealthy and in the bloom of health-or was he?"Undoubtedly one of the best writers of English mysteries and chiller-killer plots."-The Los Angeles TimesLike any small community, Linchester has its intrigues: love affairs, money problems, unhappy marriages. But the gossip is elevated to new heights when young Patrick Selby dies on the very night of his beautiful wife's birthday party.The whole neighborhood was there, witn...

The Monster In The Box is the latest addition to Ruth Rendell's classic and beguiling Inspector Wexford series. In this enthralling new book, Rendell, "the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world, " (Time), takes Inspector Wexford back to his days as a young policeman, and to the man he has long suspected of murder - serial murder. Outside the house where Wexford investigated his first murder case - a woman found strangled in her bed...

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. But when reality intrudes into Mix's life, a long pent-up violence explodes.

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.

A 50th anniversary edition of the first Inspector Wexford novel, with an introduction by Ian Rankin and a new afterword by Ruth Rendell. 'Ruth Rendell's mesmerising capacity to shock, chill and disturb is unmatched' "The Times".

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No Man's Nightingale: the eagerly anticipated twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell's bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series.Sarah Hussain was not popular with many people in the community of Kingsmarkham. She was born of mixed parentage - a white Irishwoman and an immigrant Indian Hindu. She was also the Reverend of St Peter's Church.But it comes as a profound shock to everyone when she is found strangled in the Vicarage.A garrulo...

Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury - a human hand. The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years. The post mortem can not reveal the precise cause of death. Although it covers a relatively short period of time, the police computer stores a long list of missing persons. Men, women and children disappear at an alarming rate - 500 every day. Wexford knows he i...

The twenty-fourth book in the bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series, from the author of classic detective fiction and gripping psychological thrillers including End in Tears and Thirteen Steps Down. Tom Ede is now a Detective Superintendent, and is very keen to recruit Wexford as an adviser on a mysterious murder case.

With this rich range of unabridged stories we celebrate the very best of contemporary writers and writing.Among others the collections features thriller writer Ruth Rendell, witty William Boyd, the Japanese literary sensation Haruki Murakami, ever-inventive Helen Simpson, and Patrick O'Brien, world-famous for his nautical series.Readers include top British actors Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres and Janet McTeer.