Two things interest Stanley Manning crossword puzzles and the substantial sumhis wife Vera stands to inherit when his motherinlaw dies. Otherwise life at61 Lanc... » 

Two things interest Stanley Manning crossword puzzles and the substantial sumhis wife Vera stands to inherit when his motherinlaw dies. Otherwise life at61 Lanchester Road is a living hell. For she lives with them nowand she willstop at nothing to tear his marriage apart. One afternoon Stanley lends deatha helping hand. But very soon after the deed is done he finds that his actionsmay cost him. In One Across Two Down master crime writer Ruth Rendelldescribes a man whose strained sanity and stained reputation transform him froma witless loser into a killer afraid of his own shadow. «