- Fiction, Police in fiction, Police, Inspector Wexford (Fictitious character)
The fourth in the Chief Inspector Wexford series, reissued in B format to tie-in with the long awaited new Wexford prequel, Monster in the Box.A man and his daughter lie dead after a car accident.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Ruth Rendell
- First published
- May 12, 1987
- Pages
- 195
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Random House Publishing Group, Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780745148137
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“JACK PERTWEE was getting married in the morning and the Kingsmarkham and District Darts Club were in the Dragon to give him what George Carter called a send-off.”
Ruth Barbara Rendell is an English crime author (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Rendell>Wikipedia</a>).
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