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Synopsis

In this psychological thriller by the acclaimed master of the subgenre, Ruth Rendell, two mentally unbalanced people--one of them psychotic--coexist uneasily in a decaying London mansion. Michael "Mix' Cellini, a working-class man employed as a repairer of fitness machines, knows for sure that one day he will be famous, either because of his unparalleled knowledge of the past exploits of Reggie Christie, a serial killer who preyed on Mix’s neighborhood half a century ago, or because of his certain future relationship with Nerissa Nash, the supermodel he’s stalking. His obsessions collide unpleasantly--and eventually, dangerously--with those of his landlady Gwendolen Chawcer, a nosy, impoverished blueblood who loathes her lodger and broods over the chaste love she still has for a man she hasn’t seen in 50 years.

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