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Language
English
Description
Anita Margolis, young, beautiful, carefree, has vanished into thin air. She left her home to attend a party one wet evening, but has not been seen since. She is reported missing soon after by her brother, whom she shared a flat with, the acclaimed but eccentric artist Rupert Margolis. Inspector Burden quickly forms an impression of a wanton young girl simply gone off somewhere with a boyfriend having neglected to let anyone know. After all, she was...
Author
Publisher
Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
Chief Inspector Wexford suspects Robert Hathall, an irritable accountant with a galloping case of paranoia, of having murdered his second wife, but he is unable to prove it. In time he is proved to have been right about the criminal, but wrong about the victim.
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1978]
Language
English
Description
The body found under the hedge was that of a middle-aged woman. The grey eyes were wide and staring, and in them D.I. Wexford thought he saw a sardonic gleam, but that must have been imagination. However, he didn't have much more to go on.
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Language
English
Description
Chief Inspector Wexford's doctor has prescribed no alcohol, no rich food and, above all, no police work. But when a young girl's body is found in a London cemetery and the local police are baffled, Wexford decides to brave his doctor's wrath and the condescension of the London police by doing some investigating of his own.
6) Harm done
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Language
English
Description
Inspector Wexford confronts the terrifying world of domestic violence when a series of kidnappings leads back to his own daughter's volunteer work at a shelter for battered women
Author
Series
Inspector Wexford mystery volume 19
Language
English
Description
The mysterious disappearance of two local teenagers and their baby-sitter draws Inspector Wexford into a baffling case involving dark family secrets, violence, a religious cult, adultery, and murder.
8) End in tears
Author
Language
English
Description
A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while ... One particular member of the local press is gunning for the Chief Inspector, distinctly unimpressed with what he regards as old-fashioned police methods. But Wexford, with his old friend and partner, Mike Burden, along with two new recruits to the Kingsmarkham team, pursue...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Dazzling psychological suspense. Razor-sharp dialogue. Plots that catch and hold like a noose. These are the hallmarks of crime legend Ruth Rendell, “the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world” (Time magazine). From Doon with Death, now in a striking new paperback edition, is her classic debut novel—and the book that introduced one of the most popular sleuths of the twentieth century.
There is nothing...
There is nothing...