Blood Rubies

by Michael McDowell and Dennis Schuetz

Book Overview

BLOOD RUBIES It would bring bad luck, they said. But she split her pair of ruby earrings and gave one to each of her beautiful twin babies. Within hours she was burned to death in a fire. The twins... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 038079392X
• ISBN13: 9780380793921
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Not-bad campy crime novel by an obscure but great writer.

"Axel Young" is the pen name of author Michael McDowell, who in the 80s wrote some excellent horror novels (with a flair for the bizarre, violent and humorous), including the "Blackwater" series, that got him cult following.In this, his first outing on the "suspense" genre (which he parodies nicely) it's like a novel by Thomas M. Disch in collaboration with James M. Cain became a full-fledged "Valley of the Dolls" send-up.All the ingredients for a tasty dish are here: the (apparently) ludicrous plot, unbelievable settings, facetious characters, disco dancin', nuns, mayhem, drugs, murder, bedlam, more nuns, turgid passions, sex, even more nuns... and in the middle of it, a pair of twins (Katherine and Andrea) who coudn't be more different, and yet more alike.I recommend this book to have fun, and think that the author must have had really a grand old time writing this campy, colorful romp, (originally published in 1982) for it is actually quite good and the ending (if protracted) is no less a stunner.Also recommended is Young's follow-up "Wicked Stepmother".