The queen of English crime fiction once lived in this Art Deco house.
Ruth Rendell, or Baroness Rendell of Babergh, to give her her full title, once lived in this house in Shelley Grove, Loughton.
She was educated at Loughton County High School for Girls and subsequently worked as a journalist in Loughton at the West Essex Gazette.
Some of her fiction is set in nearby Epping Forest, and ‘Little Cornwall’, the hilly area of north-west Loughton close to the Forest, takes its name from her description in the novel The Face of Trespass.
Rendell was born in 1930, around the same time as this house, though this one, it has to be said, has lost most of its period features.
Mind you, the garden is definitely big enough to bury a body or two, and if you have murderous ambitions beyond this, Epping Forest would hold a fair few more.
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