The House of Stairs (Unabridged)
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- $28.99
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Publisher Description
When Lizzie and Bell meet for tea after nearly two decades apart, the topic of conversation is murder - one that Bell herself committed
When Elizabeth Vetch spots Bell for the first time in 17 years, she chases her down in order to learn why her old friend committed a terrible murder all those years ago. Bell has been in prison ever since the mysterious events that took place at the House of Stairs, a London mansion full of over-privileged, overstuffed, and somewhat sinister boarders, landed her there. Now it’s up to Lizzie to put together the pieces of her friend’s - and her own - fateful past.
As the story behind Bell’s crime unfolds, master of suspense Barbara Vine keeps readers guessing at the victim and the motive, letting the sword of Damocles hang over the heads of a fascinating and richly drawn cast of characters.
Customer Reviews
The House of Stairs--audio book review
I have listened to many books by Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. I have enjoyed them tremendously--until now. It's not the writig that irks me, it's the reading. Horrible. I would call this manner of reading The Start-Stop Style. The lack of variation in emotion and tone, along with an uninspired, halting, monotonous delivery, makes following the plot or keeping track of the characters an excrutiatingly arduous task. All this agony for $31.95! What a disappointment! Is an aside, I'm pretty sure the narrator has smoked two packs a day for the last ninety years. I say ninety years because she sounds at though she studied hollywood movie star enunciation in the early twentieth century, when actors' vowels strugged to be British. This is what happens when Norma Desmond says, "Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up,' and instead of letting her down gently, he hires her. Ugh. I guess I'll have to read the book.