The Secret House of Death
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Author | Ruth Rendell |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Crime/Mystery novel |
Publisher | John Long |
Released | 1968 |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 184 pp |
ISBN | ISBN 0090892100 |
Preceded by | A New Lease of Death |
Followed by | The Best Man to Die |
The Secret House of Death is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1968.
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Susan Townsend was the only resident with no interest in the affair going on next door in Orchard Drive, or in the neighbourhood gossip about it. Yet it was Susan who found the bodies of the lovers locked in death. And it was Susan whose own life would be imperilled by a monstrous crime.