The Face of Trespass

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Title The Face of Trespass

1975 Arrow paperback edition cover
Author Ruth Rendell
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Crime/Mystery novel
Publisher Hutchinson
Released 5 March 1974
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 192 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-09-117680-8
Preceded by Some Lie And Some Die
Followed by Shake Hands Forever

The Face of Trespass is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1974.

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Two years ago he was a promising young novelist. Now he barely survives, in a near-derelict cottage with only an unhooked telephone and his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla, but the affair is over and the long slide into deception and violence has just begun.