- Fiction, Police, Inspector Wexford (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories
In a vast, gloomy, overgrown London cemetery, a girl is found murdered. A girl with a name that isn't here, and little else that is. A girl with no friends, no possessions and no past.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Ruth Rendell, Robin Bailey
- First published
- November 1, 1996
- Pages
- 198
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Chivers Word for Word Audio Books, Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
- Editions
- 32
- Language
- fin, German, Russian, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9789516116078
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Ruth Barbara Rendell is an English crime author (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Rendell>Wikipedia</a>).
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