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One Across, Two Down
By Ruth Rendell.
Filmed as Diary of
the Dead (1976), directed by Arvin Brown.
Published by Vintage
Crime / Black Lizard.
First published 1971.
ASIN: 0375704949
ISBN-10: 9780375704949
ISBN-13: 978-0375704949
Description:
Two things interest
Stanley Manning: crossword puzzles, and the substantial sum his wife Vera
stands to inherit when his mother-in-law dies. Otherwise, life at 61 Lanchester
Road is a living hell. For Mrs. Kinaway lives with them now – and she will stop
at nothing to tear their marriage apart. One afternoon, Stanley sets aside his
crossword puzzles and changes all their lives forever...
In One Across, Two Down,
master crime writer Ruth Rendell describes a man whose strained sanity and
stained reputation transform him from a witless loser into a killer afraid of
his own shadow. Mischievously plotted,
smart, maddeningly entertaining, One Across, Two Down is a dark delight –
classic Rendell.
"The
best mystery writer in the English-speaking world." – Time.
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