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13 Steps Down

By Ruth Rendell

13 Steps Down Contemporary literature

13 Steps Down

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From the multi-award-winning author of The Babes in the Wood and The Rottweiler, a chilling new novel about obsession, superstition, and violence, set in Rendell's darkly atmospheric London. Mix Cellini (which he pronounces with an 'S' rather than a 'C') is superstitious about the number 13. In musty old St. Blaise House, where he is the lodger, there are thirteen steps down to the landing below his rooms, which he keeps spick and span. His elderly landlady, Gwendolen Chawcer, was born in St. Blaise House, and lives her life almost exclusively through her library of books, so cannot see the decay and neglect around her. The Notting Hill neighbourhood has changed radically over the last fifty years, and 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious John Christie committed a series of foul murders, has been torn down. Mix is obsessed with the life of Christie and his small library is composed entirely of books on the subject. He has also developed a passion for a beautiful model who lives nearby -- a woman who would not look at him twice. Both landlady and lodger inhabit weird worlds of their own. But when reality intrudes into Mix's life, a long pent-up violence explodes.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
368
Release Date:
2006-06-06
Publication Date:
2006-06-06
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1400095905
ISBN13:
9781400095902
Weight:
268 g
Height:
134 cm
Width:
204 cm
Thickness:
20 cm

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