- Wexford, inspector (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, England, fiction, Fiction
Only eighteen black people live in Kingsmarkham. One of them is Wexford's new Doctor, Raymond Akande. When the doctor's daughter, Melanie, goes missing, the Chief Inspector takes more than just a professional interest in the case.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Ruth Rendell
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 366
- Publisher
- Hutchinson, Livre de Poche, Saur
- Editions
- 36
- Language
- English, Italian, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9788804419839
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“There were four people besides himself in the waiting room and none of them looked ill.”
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