Guardian 24189

[SpiderPig]

4d ......abandon silence for Ruth?

R?N?E?L

I'm sure that this is Rendell, and the clue is a run-on from the previous answer teaRSHELL - the second part of the answer minus Sh for silence, but surely you have to abandon the TEA part as well,

Also, where does it tell you to put the END in RELL ?

Have I missed something ?

Thanks in advance - SP

[kayakamina]

Rend (tear/abandon) + (sh) ell

[SpiderPig]

Thank you - I've realised was using abandon for END and for lose SH - which left me RELL to work out. I came late to this one and wanted to get it in the post. Thank you again !