The Blood Doctor

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The Blood Doctor
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First edition (UK)
AuthorBarbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)
LanguageEnglish
Genre Crime/Mystery novel
Publisher Viking (UK)
Crown (US)
Publication date
6 June 2002
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint/Audiobook
Pages400 pp (Hardback)
ISBN 0-670-91274-3
OCLC 59395413
Preceded by Grasshopper  
Followed by The Minotaur  

The Blood Doctor is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. [1]

Contents

Plot

Told from the point of view of Martin Nanther, a biographer, this novel follows the main character's investigation into his own great-grandfather, a blood-doctor for the royal family under Queen Victoria. In the course of his investigation, Martin discovers his subject may not have been the upstanding peer he thought he was. [2]

References

  1. "Fiction book review - The Blood Doctor". Publishers Weekly . 24 June 2002. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
  2. Whitaker, Phil (5 July 2002). "Bleeding the past". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 March 2025.