Master of the Moor Author:Ruth Rendell Most people in the villages bordering the bleak expanse of the Vangmoor thought it forbidding, even in daylight. The abandoned lead mines were eerie, and the long avenues of pre-historic standing stones-the Foinmen-were even eerier. But to Steven Whalby, Vangmoor was like home. He was master of the moor and knew its mysteries better than anyone ... more »Or so he thought. It was among the Foinman that Whalby found the body of a strangled girl, her hair shorn off at the scalp. When he reported his discovery to the police, they were hostile, as if he had murdered the girl myself. By the time a second woman had been killed on the moor, terror had gripped the people of the area; Whalby's strange marriage was falling apart; an his eccentric father seemed more to be going mad. But more horror was in store before the moor would give up its dark and deadly secret.« less