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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20020331
Author:Dennis Drabelle

ADAM AND EVE AND PINCH ME

By Ruth Rendell

Crown. $25.

Is there something in British water that grows novelists of great talent and prodigious industry? We've had Anthony Trollope, P.G. Wodehouse, Iris Murdoch and, still working at a torrid pace, Ruth Rendell.

Rendell, born in 1930, published her first novel in 1964, and has now written upwards of 50 that are so stylish critics say she transcends the mystery genre. So industrious is she that she has split herself into three. There is the creator of the Chief Inspector Wexford novels. There is the craftswoman of psychological novels centered on ...

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