The Bridesmaid
By: Ruth Rendell
Edition: Mysterious Press ed.
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780445409125
Copyright date: 1989
Subjects: Psychological fiction
Description: Philip Wardman's ideal of beauty is a statue of a minor Greek goddess, Flora, which stands in his widowed mother's garden. When he meets the living incarnation of the statue, a lovely, ethereal actress named Senta Pelham, he begins an affair with her. Unlike Philip, who has a neurotic fear of violence and death, Senta is fascinated with death and her distain for humanity leads her to propse an evil game for Philip to prove his love.
Notes: "Originally published in hardcover by The Mysterious Press. First Mysterious Press Paperback Printing: July, 1990"--Title page verso.