Barbara Vine was the pen-name of Ruth Rendell, and Viking published
all of her books under that name.
Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, with worldwide sales of
approximately 20 million copies, and regular Sunday Times
bestsellers.
Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers'
Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon in
My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday
Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime
Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained
excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in
1997 became a Life Peer.
Ruth Rendell died in May 2015.
Who is the sad, reflective narrator, and what illness might she have? What hold does the tall, dark woman called Bell have on her? And what happened at the carefully described House of Stairs in London that sent Bell to prison? PW called this mystery ``profoundly memorable.'' (Aug.)
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