A Dark-Adapted Eye
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| Author | Barbara Vine |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Crime / Mystery novel |
| Publisher | Viking |
| Released | March 1 1986 |
| Media type | Print/Audiobook |
| Pages | 304 (paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0140086366 |
| Followed by | A Fatal Inversion |
A Dark-Adapted Eye is a 1986 novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, written under the name Barbara Vine. The novel won the American Edgar award.
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Like most families they had their secrets. And they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the fifties was not kind to women who erred, so they had to use every means necessary to keep the truth hidden behind closed doors, even murder.
