Heartstones

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Heartstones
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First edition (UK)
Author Ruth Rendell
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Genre Crime/Mystery novel
Publisher Hutchinson (UK)
Harper & Row (US)
Publication date
16 April 1987
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages80 pp
ISBN 0-06-015757-7
OCLC 15519675
823/.914 19
LC Class PR6068.E63 H4 1987

Heartstones is a novella by British author Ruth Rendell, published in 1987. [1] It was also published by Longman in a special educational edition in 1990.

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