# Thirteen Steps Down

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- Authors: [Ruth Rendell](https://www.bookquiver.com/ruth-rendell)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2005-06-30

## Description

A classic Rendellian loner, Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number 13. Living in a decaying house in Notting Hill, Mix is obsessed with 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious John Christie committed a series of foul murders. He is also infatuated with a beautiful model who lives nearby - a woman who would not look at him twice. Mix's landlady, Gwendolen Chawcer is equally reclusive - living her life through her library of books. Both landlady and lodger are caught up in their own psychologically twisted parallel worlds. But when reality intrudes into Mix's life, a long pent-up violence explodes.

## Editions

### Thirteen Steps Down

- Publisher: arrow
- ISBN: 978-00-9947-432-6
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2005-06-30
- Language: en_GB