The House of Stairs (Vine novel)

The House of Stairs
First edition (UK)
Author	Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Crime / Mystery novel
Publisher	Viking (UK) Harmony (US)
Publication date	September 1, 1988
Media type	Print/Audiobook
Pages	3288 (paperback)
ISBN	0-14-011446-7
OCLC	59149231
Preceded by	A Fatal Inversion
Followed by	Gallowglass

The House of Stairs is a 1988 novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, published under the name Barbara Vine.

Plot summary

As Elizabeth tells her story, so the tragic events that took place at the House of Stairs 20 years before are revealed. She tracks Bell Sanger down and renews her acquaintance, with terrifying results.

Ruth Rendell

Inspector Wexford novels	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

Stand-alone novels	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 St Zita Society The Girl Next Door Dark Corners

As Barbara Vine	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

Short story collections	The Fallen Curtain Means of Evil The Fever Tree The New Girlfriend The Copper Peacock Blood Lines Piranha to Scurfy

TV series	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

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