Dark Corners (novel)
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Dark Corners is a 2015 crime fiction novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, the last she wrote before her death that same year.[1] The novel has no dedication or epigraph.[2] The title of the book is taken from a phrase in the William Shakespeare play Measure for Measure.[3]
Novelist Carl Martin has fallen on hard times financially, so when he inherits a house after his father's passing he quickly rents the upper floors to the first person he interviews, the strange and intense Dermot McKinnon.
Carl's other inheritance is a collection of alternative medicines his father had amassed, including a diet pill that had been recently linked to a few deaths.
After some unfortunate events Carl is blackmailed by Dermot and begins to spiral into darkness while more information about his tenant is brought to light.[4]
References
- ↑ Lawson, Mark (22 October 2015). "Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell review – a spookily perfect farewell". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
- ↑ "Pity for the psychopath: Ruth Rendell's Dark Corners". The Daily Telegraph. 11 October 2015. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
- ↑ Wilson, Andrew (10 October 2015). "Dark Corners, by Ruth Rendell - book review: A frightening farewell". The Independent. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
- ↑ Dark Corners: About. Simon &Schuster. 15 November 2016. ISBN 978-1-5011-1943-9. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
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