Adam and Eve and Pinch Me (Rendell novel) Adam and Eve and Pinch Me (Rendell novel) Adam and Eve and Pinch Me (2001) is a psychological thriller novel by English crime writer Ruth Rendell. A handsome con man with numerous aliases, including Jerry Leach and Jock Lewis, manipulates three vulnerable women into handing over large sums of money. After he supposedly dies in the Paddington train crash, they realise his deception and find themselves in serious debt. However, one of his many victims, ex-fiancée Minty, thinks she has seen his 'ghost' wandering around and begins carrying a knife so she can exact revenge on his 'spirit'... The title
The Gospel According to Adam Twenty-Second Day" appeared in Akhbar al-Adab in 2004, his first unpublished—as well—novel "Al Dawa'er" winning the Cultural Palaces prize 2004. "The Gospel according to Adam" breaks the conventional format of the novel, consisting as it does of a single 60-page-long paragraph that, like all good streams of consciousness, sweeps writer and reader on to no pre-ordained or predictable destination. As a reviewer for Al-Ahram's literary page ( May 10, 2006) puts it, The Gospel according to Adam reflects "a social reality that has lost all certainties." In keeping with other novels (such as Ahmed Alaidy's "Being Abbas el Abd") of