The Fallen Curtain is a collection of 11 short stories by British writer Ruth Rendell.

The title story won the MWA Edgar Award for Best Short Story of the Year in 1975.

[1] The book was first published in the UK in 1976 by Hutchinson.

All stories – with the exception of People Don’t Do Such Things, The Vinegar Mother and Divided We Stand – were first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in the early to mid-1970's.

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