The Thief (Quick Read) - Softcover

Rendell, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099497883 ISBN 13: 9780099497882

Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

What you do in childhood may come back to haunt you. Stealing things from people who had upset her was something Polly did quite a lot. There was her Aunt Pauline; a girl at school; a boyfriend who left her. And there was the man on the plane ...Humiliated and scared by a total stranger Polly does what she always does. She steals something. But she never could have imagined that her desire for revenge would have such terrifying results.

About this title

About the Author

Ruth Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, and will be remembered as a legend in her own lifetime. Her groundbreaking debut novel, From Doon With Death, was first published in 1964 and introduced the reader to her enduring and popular detective, Inspector Reginald Wexford, who went on to feature in twenty-four of her subsequent novels.

With worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, Rendell was a regular Sunday Times bestseller. Her sixty bestselling novels include police procedurals, some of which have been successfully adapted for TV, stand-alone psychological mysteries, and a third strand of crime novels under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. Very much abreast of her times, the Wexford books in particular often engaged with social or political issues close to her heart.

Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for 1976’s best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.

Ruth Rendell died in May 2015. Her final novel, Dark Corners, was published in October 2015.

From the Back Cover

'Ruth Rendell knows how to make your hair stand up straight on your head Maeve Binchy

Stealing things from people who had upset her was something Polly did quite a lot.

There was her Aunt Pauline; a girl at school; a boyfriend who left her. And there was the man on the plane...

Humiliated and scared, by a total stranger, Polly does what she always does. She steals something. But she never could have imagined that her desire for revenge would have such terrifying results.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099497883
• ISBN 13: 9780099497882
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96