- Fiction, Police, Inspector Wexford (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories
This Inspector Wexford duo debuted back-to-back in 1972.Murder finds the British sleuth defying doctor's orders and investigating the death of a young girl, while Dying (LJ 7/72) offers a baffling case of two kidnapped children. A double dose of Rendell is twice the fun.Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Ruth Rendell
- First published
- 1971
- Pages
- 218
- Publisher
- Chivers Audio Books, Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Random House UK Distribution
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- English, Spanish, French, German
- ISBN
- 9783499428784
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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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