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A Dark-Adapted Eye

A Dark-Adapted Eye( )
Author: Rendell, Ruth
ISBN:978-0-452-27064-0
Publication Date:Oct 1993
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint:Plume
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $19.00
Book Description:

"Dazzling...writing at her formidable best, Barbara Vine taps the poetry as well as the pain of her characters' clamorous declarations of their need for love." --New York Times Book Review "When the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world launched a second byline, she actually stepped up her writing a level." --TIME Faith Severn has grown up with the dark cloud of murder looming over her family. Her aunt Vera Hillyard, a rigidly respectable...
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Book Details
Pages:288
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.2 x 6.8 x 0.7 Inches
Book Weight:0.375 Pounds
Author Biography
Rendell, Ruth (Author)
Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) Ruth Rendell was born in Essex, England on February 17, 1930. She was educated at Loughton County High School.

Rendell began her career as a journalist. She wrote six novels before sending her work in to a publisher. She writes crime novels and psychological thrillers, and is best known for her Inspector Wexford books. Rendell also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine.

Rendell has received many awards for her writing, including the Silver, Gold, and Cartier Diamond Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association, three Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America, The Arts Council National Book Awards, and The Sunday Times Literary Award. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Many of her titles have been made into films and made-for-tv movies.

Rendell died on May 2, 2015. She was 85 years old.

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