13 steps down

Resource Information

The work 13 steps down represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Anaheim Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

13 steps down

Statement of responsibility

by Ruth Rendell

Title variation

Thirteen steps down

Creator

• Rendell, Ruth, 1930-

Contributor

• BBC Audiobooks America
• Jerrom, Ric

Subject

• Compact discs
• Landlord and tenant -- Fiction
• Murderers -- Fiction
• Audiobooks
• Serial murders -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number 13. In musty old St. Blaise House, where he is the lodger, there are thirteen steps down to the landing below his rooms, which he keeps spick and span. His elderly landlady, Gwendolen Chawcer, was born in St. Blaise House, and lives her life almost exclusively through her library of books, so cannot see the decay and neglect around her. The Notting Hill neighborhood has changed radically over the last fifty years, and 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious John Christie committed a series of foul murders, has been torn down. Mix is obsessed with the life of Christie and his small library is composed entirely of books on the subject. He has also developed a passion for a beautiful model who lives nearby -- a woman who would not look at him twice. Both landlady and lodger inhabit weird worlds of their own. But when reality intrudes into Mix's life, a long pent-up violence explodes

Cataloging source

CANA

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

PerformerNote

Read by Ric Jerrom