TIGERLILY’S ORCHIDS BY RUTH RENDELL, HUTCHINSON, $32.95.
Ruth Rendell is such a master of mystery that not only is it impossible to guess the identity of the killer, for a long while it’s hard to figure out who is going to die.
Luckily, not one of the characters that live in the apartments of London’s Lichfield House is particularly likeable. Yet they all jump off the page: Stuart Font is vain, shallow and lazy; caretaker Wally Scurlock has a perverted passion; alcoholic Olwen Curtis has decided to drink herself to death; an aloof Asian family comes and goes at odd hours; and a beautiful but desperate young woman catches Stuart’s imagination, a woman he calls Tigerlily. Yet what’s happening in Tigerlily’s house? You’ll never guess.
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