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082	0		_aMYS REN
100	1		_aRendell, Ruth
245	1	0	_aA judgement in stone _c/ Ruth Rendell.
260			_aNew York _b: Vintage Crime _c, c2000.
300			_a188 p.
520			_a"A classic."--The London Times What on earth could have provoked a modern day St. Valentine's Day massacre? On Valentine's Day, four members of the Coverdale family--George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles--were murdered in the space of 15 minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them, one by one, in the blue light of a televised performance of Don Giovanni. When Detective Chief Superintendent William Vetch arrests Miss Parchman two weeks later, he discovers a second tragedy: the key to the Valentine's Day massacre hidden within a private humiliation Eunice Parchman has guarded all her life. A brilliant rendering of character, motive, and the heady discovery of truth, A Judgement in Stone is among Ruth Rendell's finest psychological thrillers. "It will be an amazing achievement if [Rendell] ever writes a better book."--London Daily Express "Ruth Rendell is the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world."--Time
655		7	_aMystery fiction
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