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Ruth Rendell's last novel published during her lifetime combines crime fiction with a profound psychological study of aging. Set between the end of World War II and the present day in Loughton, Essex.
Hungry Hill (1943) is a saga of five generations of the Anglo-Irish Brodrick family, owners of Clonmere Castle in Ireland. Du Maurier, a master of Gothic prose, weaves together folklore, curses, and social change, showing how greed destroys heirs.
J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964), a British geneticist, evolutionary biologist, and science popularizer, wrote "My Friend Mr. Leakey" in 1937 – a collection of five humorous, fantastic stories for children (and adults).
In the novel At the White Horse (1961), Christie combines the supernatural and the rational in a story of mysterious deaths and an organization that offers "services" of elimination, inspired by Dennis Wheatley, with a focus on inheritance and the ethics
In the early hours of the morning, the corpse of a young girl whom no one knows will be found in the library of the manor house. Where did she come from? How did she get to the library? And who, anyway, in that house could want her dead? The facts, appare
Desperate Defiance (1936) is a romance novel in which Cartland masterfully combines romance with adventure, criticizing the social norms of the 1930s: the pressure on women to choose between tradition and freedom.