The Fallen Curtain
 First edition (UK) | |
| Author | Ruth Rendell |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime, mystery |
| Publisher | Hutchinson (UK) The Crime Club (US) |
Publication date | 17 October 1976 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback and 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
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