Three classic Rendell crime mysteries in one volume.
TO FEAR A PAINTED DEVIL
Almost everyone in Linchester had hated Patrick Selby, including his wife - and all with good reason - and many would have wished him dead. But which of all the people he had caused to suffer wast he person desperate enough to go one step further than just wishing.
VANITY DIES HARD
Alice Whittaker was thirty-seven, rich but dowdy, with no career. Her life was a lonely failure, and she had got by with the one thing she did have - money. Then handsome Andrew Fielding came into her life, and, just as suddenly, her beautiful friend Nesta vanished form it, leaving behind a trail of broken questions and confused clues. In such a distorted world, anything can be done by anyone - even murder.
THE SECRET HOUSE OF DEATH
Susan Townsend was the only resident of Orchard Drive with no interest in the affair going on next door or the neighbourhood gossip about Louise North and her mysterious male friend. yet it was Susan who found the bodies of the lovers, locked not in passion but in death. And it was Susan whose own life would be imperilled by a monstrous crime far beyond the imaginings of the vilest tongues...
