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    The Crocodile Bird

    A Novel

    Author Ruth Rendell
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    Mass Market Paperback
    $9.99 US
    Bantam Dell | Dell
    4.16"W x 6.75"H x 0.94"D   | 4 oz | 48 per carton
    On sale Oct 10, 1994 | 384 Pages | 9780440218654
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    A mother and a daughter live quietly in the rustic gatehouse of Shrove House, an isolated British estate. Their life seems perfectly ordinary except that daughter Liza has been kept isolated from the outside world for all of her sixteen years. And that he has seen her beautiful mother commit murder... more than once. Now, as the police come searching for a missing man, Liza's sheltered, strange world begins to fall apart. Piece by piece she will reveal her mother's tale of betrayal, desire, and obsession. Step-by-step we discover how much like mother, like daughter she is.
    Ruth Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, was the author of many thrillers and murder mysteries. She was the winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and also the recipient of three Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America and four Gold Daggers from Great Britain’s Crime Writers Association. In 1997, she was named a life peer in the House of Lords. Rendell also wrote mysteries under the name of Barbara Vine, of which A Dark-Adapted Eye is the most famous. She died in 2015. View titles by Ruth Rendell

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    A mother and a daughter live quietly in the rustic gatehouse of Shrove House, an isolated British estate. Their life seems perfectly ordinary except that daughter Liza has been kept isolated from the outside world for all of her sixteen years. And that he has seen her beautiful mother commit murder... more than once. Now, as the police come searching for a missing man, Liza's sheltered, strange world begins to fall apart. Piece by piece she will reveal her mother's tale of betrayal, desire, and obsession. Step-by-step we discover how much like mother, like daughter she is.

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    Ruth Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, was the author of many thrillers and murder mysteries. She was the winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and also the recipient of three Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America and four Gold Daggers from Great Britain’s Crime Writers Association. In 1997, she was named a life peer in the House of Lords. Rendell also wrote mysteries under the name of Barbara Vine, of which A Dark-Adapted Eye is the most famous. She died in 2015. View titles by Ruth Rendell

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