Thirteen Steps Down
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| Author | Ruth Rendell |
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| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | crime/mystery |
| Publisher | Hutchinson |
| Released | 2004 |
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| Preceded by | The Rottweiler |
| Followed by | End in Tears |
Thirteen Steps Down is a 2004 novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell. Its publication in the UK marked Rendell's 40th anniversary of being published, and all hardcover copies of the book had a special promotional notice on the cover celebrating this.
[edit] Plot
The novel's main protagonist is Mix Cellini (which he rigidly pronounces with an "s"), a socially-maladjusted young man who works for a company that fixes exercise equipment. Mix lives in an upstairs apartment in a decaying house in Notting Hill, rented out to him by the elderly Gwendoline Chawcer, who lives alone below and spends all her days reading. Mix is obsessed with two things, 10 Rillington Place - where serial-killer John Christie committed a horrible series of murders - and a local model, Nerrissa Nash, a woman who would likely not look at him twice. Both the main characters are reclusive and live in weird worlds of their own, but it's Mix's dark obsessions that will bring them both down.
