Ruth Rendell published 14 Barbara Vine novels over nearly three decades between 1986 and 2014. As perhaps can be expected with a highly prolific writer--in addition to the 14 Vines she published 52 novels under her own name, as well as seemingly countless pieces of short fiction--the Vines afforded diminishing yields of poisoned fruit over time. Rendell banged out the first three Vine novels--A Dark Adapted Eye, A Fatal Inversionand The House of Stairs--in just three years between 1986 a...
