Article from salon.com about Ruth Rendell.
Have never been hooked on crime fiction but have enjoyed some of her books. Best of all though, are her short stories I think. In fact she wrote one short story which would be in my anthology of best-ever short stories. I don't have my copy of the collected short stories any more having lent it to a friend (who apparently misunderstand the word "lent" for "gave" as friends unfortuantely tend to do). But it was a murder story in four pages or so - in the form of a dialogue between a husband and wife about mosquito bites and nicotine patches. In that conversation you could work out exactly how the wife was murdering the husband and that the husband didn't have a clue about the fact that she was doing so! My jaw dropped in awe and I had to read it several times.
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I have read several short stories by Ruth Rendall as well as a few of her books,but I don't remember the story you describe.
i feel so sad because i lent the book to a "friend" and it never came back. but it was a big thick collection of stories and i think had one of the wexford novels at the beginning. i will try to track it down and give you a definitive answer!
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