Â Â Â A stranger lures a child into his car with the promise of sweets. A young man spots hisÂ Â fiancÃ©eâ€™s double in a public park of ill repute. An executive visits the secluded

Fallen Curtain, The

Â Â Â A stranger lures a child into his car with the promise of sweets. A young man spots hisÂ Â fiancÃ©eâ€™s double in a public park of ill repute. An executive visits the secluded home of a former employee whose intentions are frightfully unclear. A modest soul weds the woman he rescues from suicideâ€”only to fall victim to an unfathomable form of possessiveness...Â
Â Â Â In the eleven tales gathered in The Fallen Curtain, Ruth Rendellâ€”the grande dame of the literary mysteryâ€”lays bare the twisted inner workings of the unbalanced mind.Â Here are eleven tales of haunting psychological accuracy: the gesture that betrays a parent's madness, the childhood memory clouded with denial, the utterance that introduces the threat of violence in a situation as benign as a dinner date.Â Instantly engaging, maddeningly addictive, The Fallen Curtain testifies to the enduring talents of a master of the genre.
Country USA
Brand Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Manufacturer Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2001-01-09
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375704925

Country	USA
Brand	Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Manufacturer	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2001-01-09
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780375704925

Fallen Curtain, The