Thirteen Steps Down

ISBN: NI003890
Author: Ruth Rendell
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Mix Cellini (which he pronounces with an 's' rather than a 'c') is superstitious about the number 13 and has always felt dogges by ill-luck. In St Blaise House where he lives, there are 13 steps down to the landing below his rooms, which he keeps spick and span in contrast to the rest of the place. His landlady, Gwendoline Chawcer, was born there, and lives her life almost exclusiveley through her library, blind to the neglect and decay around her. The Notting Hill neighbourhood has changed radically over the last 50 years, and 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious John Christie comitted a series of foul murders, has been torn down. Mix is obsessed with the life of Christie and his small library is comosed entirely of books on the subject. He has also developed a passion for a beautiful model who lives nearby - a woman who would not look at him twice. Both landlady and lodger inhabit weird worlds of their own. But when reality intrudes into Mix's life, a long pent up violence explodes.

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