A clerk who believes he has decoded the messages of an actual spy ring, instead of a schoolboys' complex game, plans to use the network to find the man who has stolen away his wife
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"Strange, disturbing, seductive" (Newsweek)
"Stunningly clever - another notable example of Miss Rendell's ingenuity and versatility" (Spectator)
"Rendell knows how to make your hair stand up straight on your head" (Maeve Binchy)
"The mistress of mystery" (Daily Mirror)
"Ruth Rendell is not only the finest crime novelist there is, but one of the finest novelists writing in the English language" (Scotsman)
Why adults should never indulge in child's play...
A psychologically disturbing story from the world's greatest mystery writer and author of bestselling crime thrillers, including Thirteen Steps Down.
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