Blood Lines (Ruth Rendell short stories collection)
Encyclopedia
Blood Lines: Long and Short Stories is a short story
collection by British writer Ruth Rendell
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Short story
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...
collection by British writer Ruth Rendell
Ruth Rendell
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, , who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is an English crime writer, author of psychological thrillers and murder mysteries....
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Contents
The volume contains 9 short stories and 2 longer novellaNovella
A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative usually longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000...
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- Blood lines (novella - Inspector WexfordInspector WexfordChief Inspector Reginald Wexford is a recurring character in a series of detective novels by English crime writer Ruth Rendell. He made his first appearance in the author's 1964 debut From Doon With Death, and has since been the protagonist of 20 more stories; his latest outing was the 2009...
) - Lizzie's Lover'
- Shreds and Slivers
- Burning End
- The Man Who Was The God Of Love
- The Carer
- Expectations
- Clothes
- Unacceptable Levels
- In All Honesty
- The Strawberry Tree (novella)