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The obituaries for Gerald Candless were respectful. He had been, after all, an admired and popular writer, and his sudden death at his home in Devon was a loss to literature as well as to his family and friends. The trouble was, as his daughter Sarah soon discovered, that it seemed that her father had taken on a different identity that he wasn't Gerald Candless at all.
But if he wasn't Gerald Candless, who was he?
Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has won many awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger and two Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America. She has also won the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.
Among Frances Barber's theatre roles are Marguerite in Camille (Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer), Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, and touring as Sonia in Uncle Vanya – for which she won the TMA Regional Award for Best Supporting Actress...
The best mystery writer in the English-speaking world.
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Harold Benigno
reviewed The Chimney Sweeper's Boy on May 13, 2009
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
I'm a huge Ruth Rendell fan, and I love her Barbara Vine persona novels the best.
This one is classic Barbara Vine. You know the "mystery" right away. It's the way the mystery is solved and how the story unfolds that's intriguing. You can see it coming about 100 pages from the end, but the way she hooks you in is by making you want to know the exquisite details of the story. The details aren't just technical things like guns, alibis, idiotic and awkward explanations, and the rest that normal "mysteries" are teeming with.
Because of this, Rendell/Vine is at the top of her craft, and it is because of people like her, and P.D. James, Henning Mankel, and others, that I can't read schlock mysteries or ho-hum mystery writers. (I'll refrain from naming names, although I'm tempted.)
The theme is also compelling; you understand it from page one, but it's got its own terrific complexity.
Wonderful book; highly recommended.
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