Master of the Moor

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Master of the Moor
Author Ruth Rendell
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Crime, Mystery novel
Publisher Hutchinson
Publication date April 5 1982
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 192 pp (first edition, paperback)
ISBN ISBN 0-09-146930-9 (first edition, paperback)
Preceded by Put on By Cunning
Followed by The Fever Tree

Master of the Moor is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell. it was first published in 1982.

[edit] Plot summary

The Vangmoor was a dark, forbidding place. One victim had been found there with her face disfigured and her hair shorn close to the scalp. Then a second woman disappeared on the moor, and a sense of dread gripped the 50 local men who searched for her. Someone was watching; was it the killer? This was adapted as as part of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries for British TV. It appeared first in 1994 and starred Colin Firth.