- Fiction, Police, Inspector Wexford (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories
Criminals always took their holidays in August, Chief Inspector Wexford erroneously reflected as he arrived home early that hot summer night. Thirty minutes later he was in a field outside the neighboring village of Kingsmarkham gazing down at a woman viciously stabbed to death. (from the dust jacket)
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Ruth Rendell
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 203
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Sound Library, Chivers Word for Word Audio Books
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- Portuguese, German, French, und
- ISBN
- 9780385132244
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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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