13 steps down
by Ruth Rendell
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A classic Rendellian loner, Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number 13. Living in a decaying house in Notting Hill, Mix is obsessed with 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious John Christie committed a series of foul murders. He is also infatuated with a beautiful model who lives nearby - a woman who would not look at him twice. Mix's landlady, Gwedolen Chawcer is equally reclusive - living her life through her library of books. Both landlady and lodger inhabit weird worlds of their own. But when reality intrudes into Mix's life, a long pent-up violence explodes.
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Mystery, Fiction, Serial murders, Landlord and tenant, Murderers, Psychological fiction, Suspense fiction, Mix Cellini (Fictitious character), Suspense, Detective and mystery stories, Compulsive behavior, Social Marginality, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, Serial murders, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Meurtriers, Romans, nouvelles, Meurtres en série, Arrendador y arrendatario, Novela, Asesinos, Asesinatos en serie, English fiction, Roman anglais, Homicide, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Asesinos en serieShowing 10 featured editions. View all 33 editions?
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Thirteen steps down: a novel
2004, Crown Publishers
in English
- 1st American ed.
1400098424 9781400098422
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"Now a major ITV drama"--Cover.
Originally published: London: Hutchinson, 2004.
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Mix Cellini has just moved into a flat in a decaying house in Nottinghill, where he plans to pursue his two abiding passions--supermodel Nerissa Nash, whom he worships from afar, and the life of serial killer Reggie Christie, hanged fifty years earlier for murdering at least eight women. Gwendolen Chawcer, Mix's eighty-year-old landlady has few interests beside her old books and her new tenant. But she does have an intriguing connection to Christie. And when reality intrudes into Mix's life, he turns toi Christie for inspiration and a long pent-up violence explodes. Intricately plotted and brilliantly written, 13 Steps Down enters the minds of these disparate people as they move inexorably toward its breathtaking conclusion.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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