Master of the Moor
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Master of the Moor | |
Author | Ruth Rendell |
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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.