The Bridesmaid (novel)

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The Bridesmaid
First edition cover (UK)
Author	Ruth Rendell
Language	English
Genre	Crime/Mystery novel
Publisher	Hutchinson (UK) Mysterious Press (US) Doubleday Canada (Canada)
Publication date	6 April 1989
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	304 pp
ISBN	0-09-173854-7
OCLC	59049472

The Bridesmaid is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, published in 1989.^[1] It is generally considered a fan-favourite, and was adapted into an acclaimed 2004 film by Claude Chabrol (who had previous adapted Rendell's earlier novel A Judgement in Stone , with great success).^[2]

References

↑ Pate, Nancy (7 September 1989). "Rendell's 'The Bridesmaid' Will Give Readers The Shivers". Orlando Sentinel . Retrieved 11 July 2015.
↑ "The Bridesmaid (2004)" New York Times. Retrieved 2016-03-03.

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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

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