... and the books. The works of Henry James are there, and among them The Wings of the Dove. But this is not the same copy Bell picked up off my desk in the House of Stairs. She wanted to know the ... She only had to follow the way of life he had chosen: the neighbours, the visits, the dinners, the cleaner, the cook and the gardener, the money and endless free time. Of course, it had to end ... far too late to stop the secrets of her past damaging the lives of everyone in the House of Stairs. . . Barbara Vine is a pen name of Ruth Rendell, one of the most popular crime and mystery...