| The Face of Trespass | |
| Author: | Ruth Rendell |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Crime/Mystery novel |
| Publisher: | Hutchinson (UK) The Crime Club (US) |
| Release Date: | 5 March 1974 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages: | 192 pp |
| Isbn: | 0-09-117680-8 |
| Dewey: | 823/.9/14 |
| Congress: | PZ4.R4132 Fac3 PR6068.E63 |
| Oclc: | 948644 |
The Face of Trespass is a psychological thriller[1] novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1974.[2] The novel, largely told in flashbacks, follows Graham "Gray" Lanceton, a writer involved with a woman named Drusilla Browne who asks him to kill her wealthy husband. Lanceton becomes entangled in an intense, destructive affair with Browne, whom he sees as a "succubus."[3]
An Affair in Mind, a movie adaptation of the novel by the BBC starring Stephen Dillane and Amanda Donohoe, was released in 1988.[4]