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A Spot of Folly
- Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Toby Longworth, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Gemma Whelan, Hattie Morahan
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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Summary
Previously uncollected and unpublished: new short stories from a master of psychological suspense.
New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness.
Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are 10 (and a quarter) of her most chillingly compelling short stories, collected here together for the first time.
In these tales, a businessman boasts about cheating on his wife, only to find the tables turned. A beautiful country rectory reverberates to the echo of a historical murder. A compulsive liar acts on impulse, only to be lead inexorably to disaster. And a wealthy man finds there is more to his wife's kidnapping than meets the eye.
Atmospheric, gripping and never predictable, this is Ruth Rendell at her inimitable best.
The stories are: 'Never Sleep in a Bed Facing a Mirror'; 'A Spot of Folly'; 'The Price of Joy'; 'The Irony of Hate'; 'Digby's Wives'; 'The Haunting of Shawley Rectory'; 'A Drop Too Much'; 'The Thief'; 'The Long Corridor of Time'; 'In the Time of his Prosperity'; and 'Trebuchet'.
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- Annie Rose
- 09-07-23
Utterly addictive listening
To find the collection that contains 'Trebuchet' is a joy - it's one of the best short stories I've ever read. There's a great gathering of strange and unsettling tales here, but that one final story is worth this entire collection; the stunning, skin-crawling precision of this unthinkable event needs more than one listen. It's a masterclass in constructing a story. Fabulous.
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- groovychick
- 21-07-24
enjoyable short stories.
The Thief is very good and the longest one in the collection. more of a novella.
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- Paul D
- 29-05-19
A work part formed
A mixed bag of "short" stories, some very short others a little too long. I have always enjoyed the writing of Ruth Rendell and this was no exception however I did find them rather a mixed bag. The good ones were very good and the weaker ones were . . . . . rather weak. Rambling at times with too much information offered towards an already predictable conclusion, Also the book got of to a bad start - I do hate personality forwards particularly those that nothing to the writing beyond an "aren't they wonderful" and reflected glory "I discovered them . . .". Yucky yuck.
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- michael kittridge
- 12-10-20
Smashing!
Very enjoyable "old school" British, crime and murder stories and well read.
Well worth listening to.
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- DartmoorDiva
- 04-11-17
Good, but not vintage Rendell
Lovely to have a few final stories from Ruth Rendell but they were no up there with her best works. A couple of them were slow and repetitive and the ghost stories rather weak.
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- RD
- 19-01-24
Disappointingly Bad
Probably should have left these “gems” unpublished. I suspect most weren’t even finished or heavily edited by someone else as the stories were so bad. Didn’t seem like Ruth Rendell at all. I wish I could send it back but I kept skipping the stories and it was over before I knew it. Waste of a credit. The narrators were brilliant as they always are with RR. But even they could save this mess.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-03-24
The Man Who Covered a Well
I really liked the above story and several others, they were all well read. I did not enjoy the haunting of the newly married couple.
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- Sweetpea
- 29-07-18
Dire
As a massive fan of Ruth Rendell, I couldn’t wait to listen to these previously unpublished short stories. But what a disappointment! They were awful. Not even excellent narration could reprieve them. I think Ms Rendell had left them unpublished for a reason......
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