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2000 short story collection by Ruth Rendell

Piranha to Scurfy
First edition (UK)
Author	Ruth Rendell
Language	English
Publisher	Hutchinson (UK) Crown (US) Doubleday Canada (Canada)
Publication date	7 September 2000
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	248
ISBN	0-09-179347-5

Piranha to Scurfy is a short story collection by British writer Ruth Rendell, published in 2000. The collection takes its unusual name from the first story featured, which itself is named after a volume of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

The volume contains 9 short stories and 2 longer novellas:

Piranha to Scurfy (novella)
Computer Seance (NB: not included in the US edition)
Fair Exchange
The Wink
Catamount
Walter's Leg
The Professional
The Beach Butler
The Astronomical Scarf
High Mysterious Union (novella)
Myth (NB: not included in the US edition. Also re-published in 2003 in the US quarterly The Strand Magazine, issue 11, retitled "Paradise." )

References

Guttridge, Peter (3 September 2000). "Observer review: Ruth Rendell". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 October 2017 – via www.theguardian.com.
"Strand Magazine Issue 11 - Ray Bradbury, John Mortimer, Ruth Rendall".

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Inspector Wexford novels	From Doon with Death A New Lease of Death Wolf to the Slaughter The Best Man to Die A Guilty Thing Surprised No More Dying Then Murder Being Once Done Some Lie and Some Die Shake Hands Forever A Sleeping Life Put on By Cunning The Speaker of Mandarin An Unkindness of Ravens The Veiled One Kissing the Gunner's Daughter Simisola Road Rage Harm Done The Babes in the Wood End in Tears Not in the Flesh The Monster in the Box The Vault No Man's Nightingale
Stand-alone novels	To Fear a Painted Devil Vanity Dies Hard The Secret House of Death One Across, Two Down The Face of Trespass A Demon in My View A Judgement in Stone Make Death Love Me The Lake of Darkness Master of the Moor The Killing Doll The Tree of Hands Live Flesh Heartstones Talking to Strange Men The Bridesmaid Going Wrong The Crocodile Bird The Keys to the Street A Sight for Sore Eyes Adam and Eve and Pinch Me The Rottweiler Thirteen Steps Down The Thief The Water's Lovely Portobello Tigerlily's Orchids The Saint Zita Society The Girl Next Door Dark Corners
As Barbara Vine	A Dark-Adapted Eye A Fatal Inversion The House of Stairs Gallowglass King Solomon's Carpet Asta's Book No Night is Too Long The Brimstone Wedding The Chimney Sweeper's Boy Grasshopper The Blood Doctor The Minotaur The Birthday Present The Child's Child
Short story collections	The Fallen Curtain Means of Evil The Fever Tree The New Girlfriend The Copper Peacock Blood Lines Piranha to Scurfy A Spot of Folly
TV series	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries The Barbara Vine Mysteries

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