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Misfits, the maladjusted, the lonely and the disillusioned turn up with alarming regularity in ruth rendells novels, and. Adam and eve and pinch me by ruth rendell books the. Ruth rendell did not write her first booki from doon with death, the first inspector wexford novel until the early sixties, when she was 33. His talent was recognized and other collections of stories followed, including fishmongers fiddle 1925, which contained what is perhaps his best story, the higgler. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg.
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