![]() ![]() That was the only time I flunked English.) The Mystery Writers of America awarded it an Edgar. Had to read Watership Down in eighth grade. James, Julian Symons, and Peter Lovesey lauded the work. The characters in A Dark-Adapted Eye are not puppets manipulated for the sake of a tricky plot they are the plot.” Rendell’s fellow crime writers P.D. Death and Mary Dazill, Requiem for Robert, Clues to Christabel), or Peter Dickinson’s later works ( Hindsight, Death of a Unicorn): straight novels that happen to involve murder, and in which character matters more than story.Ĭontemporary critics were enthusiastic about anything that seemed to transcend the genre The Washington Post, for instance, declared: “As Barbara Vine, Ruth Rendell has burst brilliantly out of the mystery writer class. The result is a work in the line of Mary Fitt (e.g. It would be a softer voice speaking at a slower pace, more sensitive perhaps, and more intuitive.” ![]() ![]() “For a long time I have wanted Barbara to have a voice as well as Ruth. ![]()
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