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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Shake hands forever Shake hands forever John Escott,Ruth Rendell,Nigel Anthony Classic Crime Fiction from "The most brilliant mystery novelist of our time."Most people would have screamed. Mrs Hathall made no sound. She had seen death many times before, but she had never before… OL12071W
Simisola Simisola Ruth Rendell 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 pro… OL12076W
Murder being once done Murder being once done Ruth Rendell,Robin Bailey 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. Chief Inspe… OL12077W
A New Lease of Death A New Lease of Death Ruth Rendell,Nigel Anthony The second book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Some cases are impossible to bury. It's impossible to forget the violent bludgeoning to death of an elde… OL12094W
Road Rage (Inspector Wexford) Road Rage (Inspector Wexford) Ruth Rendell La construction d'une route va entraîner la disparition du grand bois de Framhust. Aussitôt les écologistes se mobilisent. Un groupe d'extrémistes va même jusqu'à kidnapper cinq personnes, dont la fe… OL12098W
Some Lie And Some Die (Wexford Collection) Some Lie And Some Die (Wexford Collection) Ruth Rendell In spite of dire predictions, the rock festival in Kingsmarkham seemed to be going off without a hitch, until the hideously disfigured body is discovered in a nearby quarry. And soon Wexford is inves… OL12108W
Kissing the gunner's daughter Kissing the gunner's daughter Ruth Rendell Detective Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford remains cool in the face of massive media attention as he sets out to investigate the stabbing death of celebrity writer Davina Flory and her husband and da… OL12114W
An Unkindness of Ravens An Unkindness of Ravens Ruth Rendell UNKINDNESS: the collective word for a group of ravens. UNKINDNESS: the collective word for a group of ravens. They are not particularly predatory birds. . . but neither are they soft and submissive. … OL12116W
Not in the flesh Not in the flesh Ruth Rendell A new Chief Inspector Wexford mystery from the author who Time magazine has called "the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world." When the truffle-hunting dog starts to dig furiously, his m… OL12155W
End in Tears End in Tears Ruth Rendell 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 kill… OL12164W
The veiled one The veiled one Ruth Rendell A classic Chief Inspector Wexford MysteryThe woman's body lay between a silver Escort and a dark-blue Lancia. Concealed by a shroud of dirty brown velvet, it looked like a heap of rags.In the desolat… OL12165W
No more dying then No more dying then Ruth Rendell 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 ca… OL12175W
A sleeping life A sleeping life Ruth Rendell 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 neighb… OL12182W
No Mans Nightingale No Mans Nightingale Ruth Rendell "A female vicar named Sarah Hussain is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham vicarage. The gossipy cleaning woman who discovers her body, Maxine, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief … OL17508323W