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

  • 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

  1. ^ Datebase. Mystery Writers of America.


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