Ruth Rendell: A Judgement In Stone (USA 2022)

From the Publisher:
A special edition of A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell. Featuring an introduction by James Ellroy.
On Valentine's Day, four members of the Coverdale family were murdered in the space of fifteen minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them one by one in the blue light of a televised performance of Don Giovanni. When the police arrest Miss Parchman two weeks later, they discover a second tragedy: the key to the Valentine's Day massacre, a private humiliation Eunice Parchman has guarded all her life.

A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Special Edition

Ruth Rendell: A Judgement In Stone. introduction by James Ellroy. Vintage Crime / Black Lizard Anniversary Edition, ISBN 9780099588542 (August, 2022), 208 p., $18.00.

Ruth Rendell: A Judgement In Stone (UK 1994)

From the Publisher:
Four members of the Coverdale family - George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles - died in the space of fifteen minutes on the 14th February, St Valentine's Day. Eunice Parchman, the housekeeper shot them down on a Sunday evening while they were watching opera on television. Two weeks later she was arrested for the crime. But the tragedy neither began nor ended there...

'It will be an amazing achievement if she ever writes a better book' -- DAILY EXPRESS

Ruth Rendell: A Judgement In Stone. Arrow, ISBN 0099171406 (February, 1994), 190 p., £4.99.

Ruth Rendell: A Judgement In Stone (UK 1988)

From the Publisher:
Four members of the Coverdale family - George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles - died in the space of fifteen minutes on the 14th February, St Valentine's Day. Eunice Parchman, the housekeeper shot them down on a Sunday evening while they were watching opera on television. Two weeks later she was arrested for the crime.

But the tragedy neither began nor ended there...

'It will be an amazing achievement if she ever writes a better book' -- DAILY EXPRESS
'The best woman crime writer since Sayers, Christie, Allingham and Marsh' -- EDMUND CRISPIN, SUNDAY TIMES

Ruth Rendell: A Judgement In Stone. London: Arrow, 1988, ISBN 0099171406, 190 p., £2.50.

Ruth Rendell: A Judgement In Stone (UK 1987)

From the Publisher:
Four members of the Coverdale family - George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles - died in the space of fifteen minutes on the 14th February, St Valentine's Day. Eunice Parchman, the housekeeper shot them down on a Sunday evening while they were watching opera on television. Two weeks later she was arrested for the crime.

But the tragedy neither began nor ended there...

'It will be an amazing achievement if she ever writes a better book' -- DAILY EXPRESS
'The best woman crime writer since Sayers, Christie, Allingham and Marsh' -- EDMUND CRISPIN, SUNDAY TIMES

Ruth Rendell: A Judgement In Stone. London: Arrow, 1987, ISBN 0099171406, 190 p., £2.50.

Ruth Rendell: A Judgement In Stone (USA 1979)

From the Publisher:
Backside:
"A STUNNER, A NOVEL AS GRIPPING IN ITS OWN WAY AS IN COLD BLOOD." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
EUNICE PARCHMAN KILLED THE COVERDALE FAMILY BECAUSE SHE COULD NOT READ OR WRITE. BUT THERE WAS MORE TO IT THAN THAT.

SUSPENSE FROM RUTH RENDELL, WINNER OF THE EDGAR AND THE CRIME WRITERS GOLDEN DAGGER AWARDS ENGLAND'S NEW MISTRESS OF MYSTERY.

'One of the most important mystery writers of the day.' -- Los Angeles Times
'The best crime writer since Sayers, Christie, Allingham and Marsh.' -- London Sunday Times.
'A master at bringing horror to ordinary situations.' -- Newgate Callendar, The New York Times Book Review

Inside:
BLEAK HOUSE
The gardens of Lowfield Hall are overgrown now and weeds push their way up through the gravel of the drive. One of the drawing-room windows, broken by a village boy, has been boarded up, and wisteria, killed by summer drought, hangs above the front door like an old dried net.

It has become a bleak house, fit nesting place for the birds.

Before Eunice came, before Eunice left and left desolation behind her, Lowfield Hall was not like this. It was as well kept as its distant neighbors, as comfortable, as warm, as elegant, and, seemingly, as much a sanctuary as they. Its inhabitants were safe and happy, and destined to lead long secure lives.

But on an April day they invited Eunice in.

Ruth Rendell: A Judgement In Stone. A Ruth Rendell Mystery in the Great Agatha Christie Tradition. Bantam Books, ISBN 0553121723 (January, 1979), 183 p., $1.95.