• For Your Consideration:
• A First-Edition HARDCOVER of:
• “GOING WRONG: A Novel of Suspense”
(Mysterious Press, 1990) (Hardcover, First Edition)
• BY RUTH RENDELL
• SIGNED by the AUTHOR
• “Unequivocally the most brilliant mystery novelist of our time.”
—PATRICIAL CORNWELL
• “One of the greatest novelists presently at work in our language.... A writer whose work should be read by anyone who either enjoys a brilliant mystery—or distinguished literature.”
—SCOTT TUROW
• “She transcends the mystery genre and achieves something almost sublime.”
—LOS ANGELES TIMES
• “A literary HITCHCOCK.”
—PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
• “No one writers with more devastating accuracy about the world we live and commit sins in…. She is one of our most important novelists.”
—JOHN MORTIMER
• “If there were a craft guild for writers, I’d apprentice myself to RUTH RENDELL.”
—SUE GRAFTON
• ABOUT THIS TITLE: • “GOING WRONG is…concerned with obsessive love…. GUY CURRAN—remarkably handsome, rich, the product of London's underworld, at once ill-educated and quite bright—is obsessed with LEONORA CHISHOLM, a childhood sweetheart who has drawn away from him, indeed plans to marry another man, but who oddly and somewhat irresolutely continues to have a ritual lunch with CURRAN every Saturday. CURRAN repeatedly convinces himself that she is still in love with him but has been turned away by a college roommate, or her mother, stepfather or some other evil figure. Even when he learns of the wedding date, and that he is not to be invited, he continues to reason his way to the delusion that she is testing his love for her…. Readers of mystery fiction appear to be evenly divided, rather like her characters, between utter adulation of her work and deep dislike for it. Those who expect the traditional dose of catharsis—justice done, hero triumphant, all loose ends tied up, a sense of order restored—find RUTH RENDELL deeply disturbing.”
—ROBIN W. WINKS, NEW YORK TIMES (1990)
• “RENDELL…is near the top of her form in this icy, arresting tale of obsessive love…. RENDELL is a master of depicting the long, slow slide into madness, making each tiny step toward the abyss resound with chilling logic.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR: • “Unequivocally the most brilliant mystery novelist of our time. Her stories are a lesson in a human nature as capable of the most exotic love as it is of the cruelest murder. She does not avert her gaze…she magnificently triumphs in a style that is uniquely hers and mesmerizing.”
—PATRICIA CORNWELL
• “Undoubtedly one of the best writers of English mysteries and chiller-killer plots.”
—LOS ANGELES TIMES
• “She has transcended her genre by her remarkable imaginative power to explore and illuminate the dark corners of the human psyche.”
—P.D. JAMES
• “RENDELL is a literary Hitchcock when it comes to creating atmosphere and building suspense.”
—PHILADELPHIS INQUIRER
• “No one plays head games quite as well as RENDELL.”
—MONTREAL GAZETTE
• “Those who expect the traditional dose of catharsis—justice done, hero triumphant, all loose ends tied up, a sense of order restored—find RUTH RENDELL deeply disturbing.”
—ROBIN W. WINKS, NEW YORK TIMES (1990)
• “RENDELL is a master of the form.”
—WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
• “The best mystery writer anywhere in the English-speaking world.”
—THE BOSTON GLOBE
• “For readers who have almost given up on mysteries…RENDELL may be just the woman to get them started again.”
—ELLERY QUEEN’S MYSTERY MAGAZINE
• “One of the most remarkable novelists of her generation.”
—PEOPLE
• “No one can take you so totally into the recesses of the human mind as does RUTH RENDELL.”
—CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
• “RENDELL introduced many literary elements to the staid crime novel. Her prose rose far above the pedestrian to achieve smooth elegance. Her multifaceted characters added psychological depth to the lurid genre full of unrepentant sociopaths and babbling psychos. Her sense of atmosphere infused a sense of place, whether it was the slums of South London or the fen of the English countryside. All of this is true, and have been mentioned countless times in praise of RENDELL’s work. But if you ask me, it’s really her narrative flair that gives her work that literary punch.”
—CRISTINA HARTMANN (BLOG)
• “RENDELL’s clear, shapely prose casts the mesmerizing spell of the confessional.”
—THE NEW YORKER
• “For five decades, the two women were the GEORGE ELIOT and JANE AUSTEN of the homicidal novel: different minds and style but equal talent.”
—MARK LAWSON, THE GUARDIAN (UK) ON P.D. JAMES & RUTH RENDELL
• “Like her friend P.D. JAMES…MS. RENDELL was widely credited with pushing mystery into new themes and ways of storytelling. It was often said of her, as it was of MS. JAMES, that her work transcended the genre, and that by any measure she was an enormously talented writer.”
—NEW YORK TIMES (2015, AUTHOR’S OBITUARY)
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• For other details about this book, please see below.
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TITLE: “GOING WRONG: A Novel of Suspense”
AUTHOR: RUTH RENDELL
COVER ART: MEL ODOM
TYPE: HARDCOVER
PAGES: 260
PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Mysterious Press (New York), 1990
ISBN: 0-89296-389-1
CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: • VERY GOOD PLUS.
Price (18.95) is unclipped. Corners & spine tips are barely bumped. Light shelf-wear at edges. All else, including lettering & imagery, are bright & clean. (Now protected in a Gaylord cover.)
CONDITION of BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD PLUS.
Book is square. Boards are clean with sharp corners. Spine is tight & uncreased with fine tips. The “R” in author’s surname is lightly faded but all other letters on the spine are bright & sharp. Text-block edges & endpapers are fine. Pages are very clean & bright—with no writing (save for the author’s signature on the Title Page), & no doodling, no tears, no stains, no foxing, etc. LOOKS UNREAD.
THE AUTHOR RUTH RENDELL’s SIGNATURE: Appears, in black ink, on the Title Page.
••• SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned and sturdy box. THANK YOU!
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