The Keys To The Street
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  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409068693
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

The Keys To The Street

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1 Jul 2010
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7 Jan 2010
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15 Jun 2016
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3 Oct 1997
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The 20th anniversary edition of one of Ruth Rendell's best loved crime novels.

London's wealthiest, poorest, kindest and most dangerous citizens all cross paths in Regent's Park. All it takes to bring them together is a series of brutally gruesome murders...

Mary Jago has donated her bone marrow to save the life of a complete stranger; a generous act of kindness that culminates in a horrible break-up with her abusive boyfriend.

Moving to the affluent edge of London's famous Regent's Park, Mary believes she has finally escaped the threat of violence. She never thought that one simple act of kindness could put her own life in mortal danger…
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409068693
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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About the author

Ruth Rendell

Ruth Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, and will be remembered as a legend in her own lifetime. Her groundbreaking debut novel, From Doon With Death, was first published in 1964 and introduced the reader to her enduring and popular detective, Inspector Reginald Wexford, who went on to feature in twenty-four of her subsequent novels.

With worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, Rendell was a regular Sunday Times bestseller. Her sixty bestselling novels include police procedurals, some of which have been successfully adapted for TV, stand-alone psychological mysteries, and a third strand of crime novels under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. Very much abreast of her times, the Wexford books in particular often engaged with social or political issues close to her heart.

Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for 1976’s best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.

Ruth Rendell died in May 2015. Her final novel, Dark Corners, was published in October 2015.

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Also by Ruth Rendell

Dark Corners
The Girl Next Door
Archie and Archie
No Man's Nightingale
The Saint Zita Society
Expectations / Lizzie's Lover / Shreds and Slivers / The Carer / Unacceptable Levels (Storycuts)
Computer Seance / Fair Exchange (Storycuts)
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Praise for The Keys To The Street

The book's plotting is in the grand-master class, its suspense breathless, its denouement shattering

Sunday Times

This time she has surpassed herself

Antonia Fraser, Sunday Telegraph

There's a manipulative plotter at work in The Keys to the Street, and it's the author

John Mullan, The Guardian

Psychologically acute and extremely disturbing, Ruth Rendell’s work is outstanding

The Times

There are quite a few Ruth Rendells: the doyenne of the traditional English detective novel; the queen of the psychological thriller; the celebrated author of the literary thriller

Mail on Sunday

The book's plotting is in the grand-master class, its suspense breathless, its denouement shattering

Sunday Times

This time she has surpassed herself

Antonia Fraser, Sunday Telegraph

Streets ahead ... She is at her absolute best

Daily Mail