One Across, Two Down (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) - Softcover

Rendell, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375704949 ISBN 13: 9780375704949

Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group, 2001

Synopsis

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.

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One Across, Two Down Two things interest Stanley Manning: crossword puzzles and the substantial sum his wife stands to inherit when his mother-in-law dies. Otherwise, life at 61 Lanchester Road is a living hell, for she lives with them now and will stop at nothing to tear their marriage apart. One afternoon, Stanley lends death a helping hand. But very soon after the deed is done, he finds that his actions may cost hi Full description

Review:

"The best mystery writer in the English-speaking world." -Time

"Undoubtedly one of the best writers of English mysteries and chiller-killer plots."- Los Angeles Times

"Rendell is a master of the form."-The Washington Post Book World

"No one can take you so totally into the recesses of the human mind as does Ruth Rendell."- The Christian Science Monitor

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375704949
• ISBN 13: 9780375704949
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192