The Face of Trespass
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Author | Ruth Rendell |
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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.