The Secret House of Death

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Title The Secret House of Death
Author Ruth Rendell
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.