Archive research of crime fiction magazines has recovered 14 stories that will be collected under the title A Spot of Folly this autumn
A collection of short stories by Ruth Rendell, unearthed in the archive of an US detective magazine, are to be published for the first time in the UK this autumn. The stories were found in magazines – most back issues of the Ellery Queen Mystery magazine – and date as far back at the 1970s. They will be published under the title A Spot of Folly.
Cecily Gayford, commissioning editor at Profile, which will publish the collection in October, said the stories were “typical Rendell”, treading the fine line between police procedural and psychological thriller. “They feature her classic themes – marriage, jealousy, hidden secrets – and explore the boundary between normality and absolute psychopathy in the claustrophobic atmosphere of all her books,” she said.
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