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The Fever Tree
''The Fever Tree'' is a collection of short stories by British author Ruth Rendell. It was first published in 1982. Contents The collection contains 10 short-stories and one novella. # ''The Fever Tree'' # ''The Dreadful Day of Judgement'' # ''A Glowing Future'' # ''An Outside Interest'' # ''A Case of Coincidence'' # ''Thornapple'' (novella) # ''May and June'' # ''A Needle for the Devil'' # ''Front Seat'' # ''Paintbox Place'' # ''The Wrong Category'' External links The Fever Tree and Other Storieson Internet Archive The Fever Tree and Other Stories on Goodreads. 1982 short story collections Short story collections by Ruth Rendell Hutchinson (publisher) books {{1980s-mystery-story-collection-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Rendell
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, (; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. Rendell is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford.The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Sixth edition. Ed. by Margaret Drabble. Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 847. . A second string of works was a series of unrelated crime novels that explored the psychological background of criminals and their victims. This theme was developed further in a third series of novels, published under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. Life Rendell was born as Ruth Barbara Grasemann in 1930, in South Woodford, Essex (now Greater London). Her parents were teachers. Her mother, Ebba Kruse, was born in Sweden to Danish parents and brought up in Denmark; her father, Arthur Grasemann, was English. As a result of spending Christmas and other holidays in Scandinavia, Rendell learned Swedish and Danish. Rendell was educated at the Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |