| Abstract/Notes |
Even Tough she was older than pup, Dolly was alwys in awe of her brother. She wanted to believe that he had occult powers and culd do anything. Magic could remove the tunnel under the old railway line. He stayed there all day,and the feel of the hard, sharp edges of his butcher knives comforted him. By the end of The Killing Doll,the story of of Diamirt Bawne are inexoraby,lethally merged.One womqn bleeds to death-an accident or black magic? One man falls in front of a subway car-or is he pushed?.And two terrified people meet at dusk in a desrted underpass. Oly one of them comes out alive. Ruth Rendell,"the best mystery writer...in the world today" (Boston Sunday Globe).returns to the psycologicalthriller in this haunting exploration of obsession,delusion,and murderous fantsy-theeeriest book she has ever written. |
