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novel by British writer

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 ...

, first published in 1974. The novel, largely told in flashbacks, follows Graham "Gray" Lanceton, a writer involved with a woman named Drusilla Browne who asks him to kill her wealthy husband. Lanceton becomes entangled in an intense, destructive affair with Browne, whom he sees as a "succubus." ''An Affair in Mind'', a movie adaptation of the novel by the

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and

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, was released in 1988.

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1974 British novels Novels by Ruth Rendell Novels about writers Hutchinson (publisher) books {{1970s-crime-novel-stub