The Killing Doll

The Killing Doll

infobox Book
name = The Killing Doll
title_orig =
translator =


author = Ruth Rendell
cover_artist =
country = United Kingdom
language = English
series =
genre = Crime, Mystery
publisher = Hutchinson
release_date = 5 March 1984
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 237 pp
isbn = ISBN 0091554802
preceded_by = The Speaker of Mandarin
followed_by = The Tree of Hands

"The Killing Doll" is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1984.

Plot summary

The winter before he was sixteen, Pup sold his soul to the devil. He wasn't quite sure what he was going to get in exchange. For the time being, all he asked for was to be happy, and to grow a bit taller. Even though she was older than Pup, Dolly was always in awe of her brother. More and more, she wanted to believe that he had occult powers and could do anything. Magic could remove the birthmark from her face and make her normal. Magic could kill their wicked stepmother, Myra. Pup laughs when Dolly shows him an effigy of Myra: a rag doll, about fifteen inches high, with knitted nylon skin and rust-coloured wool hair. Dolly sticks it full of pins. Myra dies


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