The Fallen Curtain
1976 short story collection by Ruth Rendell
978-0375704925 The Fallen Curtain is a collection of 11 short stories by British writer Ruth Rendell. The title story won the MWA Edgar Award for Best Short Story of the Year in 1975.[1] The book was first published in the UK in 1976 by Hutchinson. All stories – with the exception of People Don’t Do Such Things, The Vinegar Mother and Divided We Stand – were first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in the early to mid-1970's.
Contents
- The Fallen Curtain
- People Don’t Do Such Things
- A Bad Heart (in the magazine publication under the title Trapped)
- You Can’t Be Too Careful
- The Double (in the magazine publication under the title Meeting in the Park)
- The Venus Fly Trap (in the magazine publication under the title Venus’s Flytrap)
- The Clinging Woman (in some publications under the title His Worst Enemy)
- The Vinegar Mother
- The Fall of a Coin
- Almost Human
- Divided We Stand
References
- ^ Datebase. Mystery Writers of America.
External links
- The Fallen Curtain, And Other Stories. Goodreads.
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Ruth Rendell
- From Doon with Death
- A New Lease of Death
- Wolf to the Slaughter
- The Best Man to Die
- A Guilty Thing Surprised
- No More Dying Then
- Murder Being Once Done
- Some Lie and Some Die
- Shake Hands Forever
- A Sleeping Life
- Put on By Cunning
- The Speaker of Mandarin
- An Unkindness of Ravens
- The Veiled One
- Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
- Simisola
- Road Rage
- Harm Done
- The Babes in the Wood
- End in Tears
- Not in the Flesh
- The Monster in the Box
- The Vault
- No Man's Nightingale
- To Fear a Painted Devil
- Vanity Dies Hard
- The Secret House of Death
- One Across, Two Down
- The Face of Trespass
- A Demon in My View
- A Judgement in Stone
- Make Death Love Me
- The Lake of Darkness
- Master of the Moor
- The Killing Doll
- The Tree of Hands
- Live Flesh
- Heartstones
- Talking to Strange Men
- The Bridesmaid
- Going Wrong
- The Crocodile Bird
- The Keys to the Street
- A Sight for Sore Eyes
- Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
- The Rottweiler
- Thirteen Steps Down
- The Thief
- The Water's Lovely
- Portobello
- Tigerlily's Orchids
- The Saint Zita Society
- The Girl Next Door
- Dark Corners
- A Dark-Adapted Eye
- A Fatal Inversion
- The House of Stairs
- Gallowglass
- King Solomon's Carpet
- Asta's Book
- No Night is Too Long
- The Brimstone Wedding
- The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
- Grasshopper
- The Blood Doctor
- The Minotaur
- The Birthday Present
- The Child's Child
- The Fallen Curtain
- Means of Evil
- The Fever Tree
- The New Girlfriend
- The Copper Peacock
- Blood Lines
- Piranha to Scurfy
- A Spot of Folly
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