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13 Steps Down

13 Steps Down

by Ruth Rendell

2005MysteryFictionSerial murdersLandlord and tenantMurderers
4.0
Open Library
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Mix Cellini has just moved into a flat in a decaying house in Nottinghill, where he plans to pursue his two abiding passions--supermodel Nerissa Nash, whom he worships from afar, and the life of serial killer Reggie Christie, hanged fifty years earlier for murdering at least eight women. Gwendolen Chawcer, Mix's eighty-year-old landlady has few interests beside her old books and her new tenant. But she does have an intriguing connection to Christie. And when reality intrudes into Mix's life, he turns toi Christie for inspiration and a long pent-up violence explodes. Intricately plotted and brilliantly written, 13 Steps Down enters the minds of these disparate people as they move inexorably toward its breathtaking conclusion.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Themes & subjects

MysteryFictionSerial murdersLandlord and tenantMurderersPsychological fiction
First published 2005

Setting

Notting Hill (London, England)EnglandLondonNotting Hill

About the author

Ruth Rendell
Ruth Rendell

17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015

Ruth Barbara Rendell is an English crime author (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Rendell>Wikipedia</a>).

Author

Ruth Rendell

First published

2005

Pages

368

Read time

≈ 9h

Editions

33

Languages

English, French, Spanish

Publisher

Penguin Random House

ISBN

9780385660747

Where to buy

TR
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