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Master of the Moor by Ruth Rendell
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Master of the Moor (edition 1983)

by Ruth Rendell

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Stephen Whalby loves to walk the moor. He considers it his, although he and his young wife Lyn are merely tenants in a flat nearby. But the senseless and frightening murder of a young woman invades Stephen's sense of privacy and pollutes his beloved moor with suspicion and dread. And then a second murder captures his imagination in an unpredictable and fascinating way . . .… (more)
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Title:Master of the Moor
Authors:Ruth Rendell
Info:Arrow (1983), Paperback
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Tags:contemporary, novel, detective fiction, british author, British author

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I think it,s well written with some interesting psychological twists. I rated it 3 instead of 4 just that it,s more of a 3 in terms of books that I like. ( )
  yhgail | Feb 20, 2019 |
A young woman’s body is found strangled with head shorn on Vangmoor, a bleak and chilling place. A local villager, Stephen Whalby, is *the* self-proclaimed authority on the moors and when a second woman disappears there, he is only too eager to help the police with their search, especially as it appears that a stranger is trying to assert control over what he considers to be *his* moors…."Master of the Moor" is a stand-alone novel from Ruth Rendell, published in 1982 but feeling quite timeless in its storytelling, which depicts an already troubled man slowly going off the rails entirely. Recommended. ( )
  thefirstalicat | Mar 2, 2017 |
A decent enough mystery, though not in the manner of the detective or police procedural type. More of E. A. Poe dark and sinister getting into the minds of not quite balanced folk. ( )
  lucybrown | Sep 27, 2015 |
A decent enough mystery, though not in the manner of the detective or police procedural type. More of E. A. Poe dark and sinister getting into the minds of not quite balanced folk. ( )
  lucybrown | Sep 27, 2015 |
A decent enough mystery, though not in the manner of the detective or police procedural type. More of E. A. Poe dark and sinister getting into the minds of not quite balanced folk. ( )
  lucybrown | Sep 27, 2015 |
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Stephen Whalby loves to walk the moor. He considers it his, although he and his young wife Lyn are merely tenants in a flat nearby. But the senseless and frightening murder of a young woman invades Stephen's sense of privacy and pollutes his beloved moor with suspicion and dread. And then a second murder captures his imagination in an unpredictable and fascinating way . . .

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