A Spot of Folly

A Spot of Folly
	First edition
Author	Ruth Rendell
Language	English
Publisher	Profile Books
Publication date	2017
Publication place	United Kingdom
ISBN	1-78816-014-2

Last updated January 19, 2026

A Spot of Folly is a collection of short stories by English writer Ruth Rendell.^[1] Subtitled "Ten And A Quarter New Tales Of Murder and Mayhem" the collection was published in 2017, two years after Rendell's death.^[2] The stories in the collection had been previously published in crime fiction magazines between 1970 and 2005, most of them Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.^[3]

References

↑ Sarah Perry (6 October 2017). "A Spot of Folly by Ruth Rendell and Sleep No More by PD James reviews – terrific stories". The Guardian . Retrieved 22 January 2019.
↑ Murray, James (13 October 2017). "A Spot Of Folly: Ten And A Quarter New Tales Of Murder and Mayhem review". Daily Express . Northern & Shell . Retrieved 22 January 2019.
↑ Kean, Danuta (31 May 2017). "Unseen Ruth Rendell short stories to be published". The Guardian . Retrieved 23 January 2019.

External links

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[The_Guardian_-_6_October_2017_-_A_Spot_of_Folly_by_Ruth_Rendell_and_Sleep_No_More_by_PD_James_reviews-1] Sarah Perry (6 October 2017). "A Spot of Folly by Ruth Rendell and Sleep No More by PD James reviews – terrific stories". The Guardian . Retrieved 22 January 2019.

[[Daily_Express_-_13_October_2017_-A_Spot_Of_Folly:_Ten_And_A_Quarter_New_Tales_Of_Murder_and_Mayhem_review-2] Murray, James (13 October 2017). "A Spot Of Folly: Ten And A Quarter New Tales Of Murder and Mayhem review". Daily Express . Northern & Shell . Retrieved 22 January 2019.

[The_Guardian_-_31_May_2017_-_Unseen_Ruth_Rendell_short_stories_to_be_published-3] Kean, Danuta (31 May 2017). "Unseen Ruth Rendell short stories to be published". The Guardian . Retrieved 23 January 2019.

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v t e 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 Saint 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 A Spot of Folly
TV series	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries The Barbara Vine Mysteries