A Fatal Inversion

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A Fatal Inversion
Author	Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	Crime / Mystery novel
Publisher	Viking
Publication date	March 1987
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	336 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0670809772
Preceded by	A Dark-adapted Eye
Followed by	The House of Stairs

A Fatal Inversion is a 1987 novel by Ruth Rendell, written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. The novel won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger in that year and, in 1987, was also shortlisted for the Dagger of Daggers, a special award to select the best Gold Dagger winner of the award's 50 year history.

[edit] Plot summary

In the hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and child are discovered in the Hall's animal cemetery. Which woman? Whose child?

[edit] Adaptation

The BBC adapted the novel for television in 1992. The series starred Jeremy Northam.

[edit] External links

• CWA Dagger of daggers page