false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171044778m/83422.jpg 83422 14 Writing under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, Ruth Rendell departs from her famous detective team of Wexford and Burden to tell a gripping tale of family madness. Vera Hillyard is a domineering and possessive woman who strives for obsessive control over a malicious older son, a youngest son who is--or isn't--illegitimate, and a daughter who is a devoted sister to her younger brother. The daughter secretly seeks to escape Vera's grasp and instead provokes a murder. This winner of the 1986 Edgar Award for best mystery novel belongs to the genre of old murders reconsidered and the question of who did what to whom and why is teasingly left unresolved. 1898119 1986 A Dark-Adapted Eye total:379|5:124|4:158|3:84|2:8|1:5| 379 1525 515 32 5 2 false false Tue May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 07:08:27 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 06:23:34 -0700 2008
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This book is no exception. A woman whose aunt was hanged for murder tells the gripping story of how the murder came to...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Apr 14 10:16:52 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 19:28:42 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 10:16:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jan 31 18:47:03 -0800 2009 Thu Jul 23 15:04:17 -0700 2009
Faith has lived under the shadow of her aunt Vera, who was hanged for murder when Faith was in college. Years later, she receives word from a man who wants to write a book about Vera's crime and her motives. This ta...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 14 20:51:28 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 21:02:40 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Sat Apr 12 21:53:19 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 21:04:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 15:45:40 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 15:55:30 -0700 2008 3 X
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