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The Fallen Curtain
First edition (UK)
AuthorRuth Rendell
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime, mystery
PublisherHutchinson (UK)
The Crime Club (US)

Publication date

17 October 1976
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardback and paperback)
Pages192
ISBN978-0375704925

The Fallen Curtain is a collection of 11 short stories by British writer Ruth Rendell. The title story won the MWA Edgar Award for Best Short Story of the Year in 1975.[1] The book was first published in the UK in 1976 by Hutchinson. All stories – with the exception of People Don’t Do Such Things, The Vinegar Mother and Divided We Stand – were first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in the early to mid-1970's.

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  1. ^ Datebase. Mystery Writers of America.

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