The middleclass suburb of Matchdown Park is all agog. First, newspaper editor Julian Townsend divorced his wife, Susan, and moved away. Then Susan's neighbour, Louise North started welcoming her lover into her home while her husband, Robert, was away to his office. Then Louise entered into a suicide-murder pact with her lover, and their bodies … Continue reading Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Secret House of Death by Ruth Rendell (1968) →