The Killing Doll
by Ruth Rendell

The summer before he was sixteen, Pup Yearman 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 wanted was to grow a bit taller.

Even though she was older than Pup, Dolly was always in awe of her brother. She wanted to believe that he had occult powers and could do anything. Magic could remove the birthmark that covered her face; magic could even kill their wicked stepmother.

Dairmit Bawne thought he was invisible. The only place he felt safe was the tunnel under the old railway line. He stayed there all day, and the feel of the hard, sharp edges of his butcher knives comforted him.

By the end of The Killinig Doll, the sotry of the Yearman family and the story of Diarmit Bawne are inexorable, lethally merged. One woman bleeds to death - an accident or black magic? One man falls in front of a subway car - or is he pushed? And two terrified people meet at dusk in a deserted underpass. Only one of them comes out alive.

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