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    A Dark Blue Perfume and Other Stories
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    Audiobook (abridged)2 hours

    A Dark Blue Perfume and Other Stories

    Written by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by George Baker and Isla Blair

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    About this audiobook

    A collection of sleek and sinister stories from the creator of Chief Inspector Wexford. “Her range is extraordinary … a shocking fusillade of finales” Sunday Times. Read by Isla Blair and George Baker, TV’s Inspector Wexford.

    A Dark Blue Perfume
    A man with a gun and nothing left to live for brings this chilling tale to a
    fatal, but unexpected, climax.

    Hare’s House
    Could simply knowing about the first murder in Hare’s house really have led Norman to a copy-cat crime?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 25, 2010
    ISBN9780007159383
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    A Dark Blue Perfume and Other Stories
    Author

    Ruth Rendell

    Ruth Rendell (1930–2015) won three Edgar Awards, the highest accolade from Mystery Writers of America, as well as four Gold Daggers and a Diamond Dagger for outstanding contribution to the genre from England’s prestigious Crime Writ­ers’ Association. Her remarkable career spanned a half century, with more than sixty books published. A member of the House of Lords, she was one of the great literary figures of our time.

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