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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books (Mm)
Published: Aug 1987
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Retail Price: $7.99
Pages: 208
Elizabeth Nightingale found peace and tranquility on her nightly walks through the rich, dense forests surrounding Myfleet Manor. But the peace she treasured was shattered one night when she found death waiting in the woods. Chief Inspector Wexford and his colleague Inspector Burden find a most unsavory case on their hands -- and must use all their wit and wisdom to solve it . . .
The search for the body commenced. Then the victim walked into town.Behind the picture-postcard façade of Kingsmarkham lies a community rife with...
Rhoda Comfrey's death seemed unremarkable; the real mystery was her life.In A Sleeping Life, master mystery writer Ruth Rendell unveils an elaborate...
Nobody does North London squalor better than Ruth Rendell. Describing in vivid detail the cultural sewer in which a monster named Teddy Brex grows up,...
A wealthy woman and her maid are murdered. Robbery would seem the likely scenario, except that none of the clues are coming together for Lucas...
Detective Inspector Gemma James accompanies her married friend Hazel Cavendish to a weekend cooking class in Scotland, unaware that Hazel's true...
Rodney Williams's disappearance seems typical to Chief Inspector Wexford -- a simple case of a man running off with a woman other than his wife. But...
Mild-mannerd Arthur Johnson's empty and solitary existence is suddenly threatened when a worldly young man, a scholar working on a thesis on...