Piranha to Scurfy
2000 short story collection by Ruth Rendell
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Piranha to Scurfy is a short story collection by British writer Ruth Rendell, published in 2000. The collection takes its unusual name from the first story featured, which itself is named after a volume of the Encyclopædia Britannica.[1]
Contents
The volume contains 9 short stories and 2 longer novellas:
- Piranha to Scurfy (novella)
- Computer Seance
- Fair Exchange
- The Wink
- Catamount
- Walter's Leg
- The Professional
- The Beach Butler
- The Astronomical Scarf
- High Mysterious Union (novella)
- Myth (NB: not included in the US edition. Also re-published in 2003 in the US quarterly The Strand Magazine, issue 11, retitled "Paradise." )
References
- ^ Guttridge, Peter (3 September 2000). "Observer review: Ruth Rendell". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 October 2017 – via www.theguardian.com.
External links
- Piranha to Scurfy on Internet Archive
- Piranha to Scurfy and Other Stories on Goodreads
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Ruth Rendell
- From Doon with Death
- A New Lease of Death
- Wolf to the Slaughter
- The Best Man to Die
- A Guilty Thing Surprised
- No More Dying Then
- Murder Being Once Done
- Some Lie and Some Die
- Shake Hands Forever
- A Sleeping Life
- Put on By Cunning
- The Speaker of Mandarin
- An Unkindness of Ravens
- The Veiled One
- Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
- Simisola
- Road Rage
- Harm Done
- The Babes in the Wood
- End in Tears
- Not in the Flesh
- The Monster in the Box
- The Vault
- No Man's Nightingale
- To Fear a Painted Devil
- Vanity Dies Hard
- The Secret House of Death
- One Across, Two Down
- The Face of Trespass
- A Demon in My View
- A Judgement in Stone
- Make Death Love Me
- The Lake of Darkness
- Master of the Moor
- The Killing Doll
- The Tree of Hands
- Live Flesh
- Heartstones
- Talking to Strange Men
- The Bridesmaid
- Going Wrong
- The Crocodile Bird
- The Keys to the Street
- A Sight for Sore Eyes
- Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
- The Rottweiler
- Thirteen Steps Down
- The Thief
- The Water's Lovely
- Portobello
- Tigerlily's Orchids
- The Saint Zita Society
- The Girl Next Door
- Dark Corners
- A Dark-Adapted Eye
- A Fatal Inversion
- The House of Stairs
- Gallowglass
- King Solomon's Carpet
- Asta's Book
- No Night is Too Long
- The Brimstone Wedding
- The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
- Grasshopper
- The Blood Doctor
- The Minotaur
- The Birthday Present
- The Child's Child
- The Fallen Curtain
- Means of Evil
- The Fever Tree
- The New Girlfriend
- The Copper Peacock
- Blood Lines
- Piranha to Scurfy
- A Spot of Folly
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