The Secret House of Death

The Secret House of Death  

1st edition
Author(s) Ruth Rendell
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Crime/Mystery novel
Publisher John Long
Publication date 1968
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 184 pp
ISBN 0090892100
OCLC Number 38323
Dewey Decimal 823/.9/14
LC Classification PZ4.R4132 Se PR6068.E63
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.

Plot summary

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.