Talking to Strange Men
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| Author | Ruth Rendell |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Crime, Mystery novel |
| Publisher | Hutchinson]] |
| Released | 21 May 1987 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 300 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-09-168080-8 (first edition, hardback) |
| Preceded by | Heartstones |
| Followed by | The Veiled One |
Talking to Strange Men is a 1987 novel by British writer Ruth Rendell.
[edit] Plot summary
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The novel main protagonist is John Creevy, a Londoner, who one day stumbles upon a series of coded messages which, unbenknownst to him, are being left by rival "gangs" of schoolboys playing at spies. Recently separated form his wife, Creevey is lonely and rather depressed, and becomes obsessed with the messages he finds, and sometimes spends whole days trying to decode the messages they hold. He is convinved they are a lot more significant than they in fact are, and soon they'll pull John and those around him down into revenge and murder.
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