![]() ![]() She has been busy in the meantime, of course, most recently with her popular cathedral town thrillers featuring lonesome draughtsman-detective Simon Serailler (an artistically inclined bachelor policeman nuzzling around old buildings - now there's a genre which may catch on). Given the amount of bread it has buttered, it seems surprising that Hill has waited 25 years before producing another. ![]() Not bad for a brief potboiler the author described as "a bread and butter work". Over half a million copies have been sold and the stage version has become the modern-day Mousetrap, installed at the Fortune Theatre for the past 19 years and approaching its 8,000th performance. Yet a new chiller by Hill is a major event, as she was responsible for The Woman in Black, perhaps one of the most commercially successful ghost stories of all time.įirst published in a small run in 1982, The Woman in Black is no longer a book so much as a global franchise. ![]() Susan Hill's supernatural tale is a slender affair - less than 150 pages in a compact format destined to land on bookshops' novelty tables amid the Top Trumps cards and Little Books of Nonsense. ![]()
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