13 steps down
By: Ruth Rendell
Publisher: Arrow Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780099580034
Subjects: Compulsive behavior; Social Marginality; Fiction
Other titles: Thirteen steps down
Description: A classic Rendellian loner, Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number 13. Living in a decaying house in Notting Hill, Mix is obsessed with 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious John Christie committed a series of foul murders. He is also infatuated with a beautiful model who lives nearby - a woman who would not look at him twice. Mix's landlady, Gwedolen Chawcer is equally reclusive - living her life through her library of books. Both landlady and lodger inhabit weird worlds of their own. But when reality intrudes into Mix's life, a long pent-up violence explodes.
Notes: "Now a major ITV drama"--Cover.

Originally published: London: Hutchinson, 2004.