- Mystery, Police, Teenage girls, Inspector Wexford (Fictitious character)
The twentieth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person.
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- Author
- Ruth Rendell
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, RH Audio
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780739326343
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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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