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A Spot of Folly

Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem

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A Spot of Folly

By: Ruth Rendell
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Toby Longworth, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Gemma Whelan, Hattie Morahan
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Previously uncollected and unpublished: new short stories from a master of psychological suspense.

New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness.

Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are 10 (and a quarter) of her most chillingly compelling short stories, collected here together for the first time.

In these tales, a businessman boasts about cheating on his wife, only to find the tables turned. A beautiful country rectory reverberates to the echo of a historical murder. A compulsive liar acts on impulse, only to be lead inexorably to disaster. And a wealthy man finds there is more to his wife's kidnapping than meets the eye.

Atmospheric, gripping and never predictable, this is Ruth Rendell at her inimitable best.

The stories are: 'Never Sleep in a Bed Facing a Mirror'; 'A Spot of Folly'; 'The Price of Joy'; 'The Irony of Hate'; 'Digby's Wives'; 'The Haunting of Shawley Rectory'; 'A Drop Too Much'; 'The Thief'; 'The Long Corridor of Time'; 'In the Time of his Prosperity'; and 'Trebuchet'.

©2017 Selection copyright (c) Tony Medawar (P)2017 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Anthologies & Short Stories Crime Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Marriage Short Story Murder
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Probably should have left these “gems” unpublished. I suspect most weren’t even finished or heavily edited by someone else as the stories were so bad. Didn’t seem like Ruth Rendell at all. I wish I could send it back but I kept skipping the stories and it was over before I knew it. Waste of a credit. The narrators were brilliant as they always are with RR. But even they could save this mess.

Disappointingly Bad

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Very enjoyable "old school" British, crime and murder stories and well read.
Well worth listening to.

Smashing!

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I really liked the above story and several others, they were all well read. I did not enjoy the haunting of the newly married couple.

The Man Who Covered a Well

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Lovely to have a few final stories from Ruth Rendell but they were no up there with her best works. A couple of them were slow and repetitive and the ghost stories rather weak.

Good, but not vintage Rendell

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The Thief is very good and the longest one in the collection. more of a novella.

enjoyable short stories.

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