The Fallen Curtain
The Fallen Curtain is a collection of 11 short stories by British writer Ruth Rendell. The title story won the Mystery [Writers of America|MWA] Edgar Award for Best Short Story of the Year in 1975. 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.
Contents
The Fallen CurtainPeople Don’t Do Such ThingsA Bad Heart You Can’t Be Too CarefulThe Double The Venus Fly Trap The Clinging Woman The Vinegar MotherThe Fall of a CoinAlmost Human- ''Divided We Stand''