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The killing doll / Ruth Rendell.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF REND	Adult Fiction		Bankstown .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	0099399504 (pbk)
Name	Rendell, Ruth, 1930-2015 See Also: Vine, Barbara, 1930-2015
Title	The killing doll / Ruth Rendell.
Published	London : Arrow, 1985, c1984.
Description	266 p. ; 18cm.
Notes	Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 1984.
Summary	No one would ever have described Manningtree Grove as fashionable. Few would have found it especially interesting. But it was not an unpleasant place to live: the old railway line lay in a valley, and the gardens looked down onto it through an almost rural scene of grass and trees. It was the kind of place where nothing ever happened. And yet it was here that Peter Yearman first sold his soul to the devil. Here that his sister first thought of the doll and the uses to which magic might be put. And here, in the Mystley tunnel, that Diarmit Bawne first barricaded himself behind the old broken mattress and thought of using the knives...
Genre	Detective and mystery fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Detective and mystery fiction . See Also: Adventure stories . Ghost stories . Horror tales . Broader Subject References: Fiction . Authors: Rendell, Ruth, 1930-2015 . See Also: Vine, Barbara, 1930- .