The Fallen Curtain

1976 short story collection by Ruth Rendell

The Fallen Curtain

First edition (UK)

Author| Ruth Rendell
Country| United Kingdom
Language| English
Genre| Crime, mystery
Publisher| Hutchinson (UK)
The Crime Club (US)

Publication date

| 17 October 1976
Media type| Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages| 192
ISBN| 978-0375704925

The Fallen Curtain is a collection of 11 short stories by British writer Ruth Rendell. The title story won the MWA Edgar Award for Best Short Story of the Year in 1975.[1] The book was first published in the UK in 1976 by Hutchinson. All stories – with the exception of People Don’t Do Such Things, The Vinegar Mother and Divided We Stand – were first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in the early to mid-1970's.

## Contents[edit]

* The Fallen Curtain
* People Don’t Do Such Things
* A Bad Heart (in the magazine publication under the title Trapped)
* You Can’t Be Too Careful
* The Double (in the magazine publication under the title Meeting in the Park)
* The Venus Fly Trap (in the magazine publication under the title Venus’s Flytrap)
* The Clinging Woman (in some publications under the title His Worst Enemy)
* The Vinegar Mother
* The Fall of a Coin
* Almost Human
* Divided We Stand

## References[edit]

1. ^ Datebase. Mystery Writers of America.

## External links[edit]

* The Fallen Curtain, And Other Stories. Goodreads.

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Ruth Rendell

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* From Doon with Death
* A New Lease of Death
* Wolf to the Slaughter
* The Best Man to Die
* A Guilty Thing Surprised
* No More Dying Then
* Murder Being Once Done
* Some Lie and Some Die
* Shake Hands Forever
* A Sleeping Life
* Put on By Cunning
* The Speaker of Mandarin
* An Unkindness of Ravens
* The Veiled One
* Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
* Simisola
* Road Rage
* Harm Done
* The Babes in the Wood
* End in Tears
* Not in the Flesh
* The Monster in the Box
* The Vault
* No Man's Nightingale

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* Vanity Dies Hard
* The Secret House of Death
* One Across, Two Down
* The Face of Trespass
* A Demon in My View
* A Judgement in Stone
* Make Death Love Me
* The Lake of Darkness
* Master of the Moor
* The Killing Doll
* The Tree of Hands
* Live Flesh
* Heartstones
* Talking to Strange Men
* The Bridesmaid
* Going Wrong
* The Crocodile Bird
* The Keys to the Street
* A Sight for Sore Eyes
* Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
* The Rottweiler
* Thirteen Steps Down
* The Thief
* The Water's Lovely
* Portobello
* Tigerlily's Orchids
* The Saint Zita Society
* The Girl Next Door
* Dark Corners

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* The House of Stairs
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* King Solomon's Carpet
* Asta's Book
* No Night is Too Long
* The Brimstone Wedding
* The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
* Grasshopper
* The Blood Doctor
* The Minotaur
* The Birthday Present
* The Child's Child

Short story collections|

* The Fallen Curtain
* Means of Evil
* The Fever Tree
* The New Girlfriend
* The Copper Peacock
* Blood Lines
* Piranha to Scurfy
* A Spot of Folly

TV series|

* The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
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