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 Master's First Reaction Is Delight At The Size Of The Clump The Dog Has Unearthed: At The Going Rate, This One Truffle Might Be Worth Several Hundred Pounds. Then The Dirt Falls Away To Reveal Not A Precious Mushroom But The Bones And Tendons Of What Is Clearly A Human Hand.
in Not In The Flesh, Chief Inspector Wexford Tries To Piece Together Events That Took Place Eleven Years Earlier, A Time When Someone Was Secretly Interred In A Secluded Patch Of English Countryside. Now Wexford And His Team Will Need To Interrogate Everyone Who Lives Nearby To See If They Can Turn Up A Match For The Dead Man Among The Eighty-five People In This Part Of England Who Have Disappeared Over The Past Decade. Then, When A Second Body Is Discovered Nearby, Wexford Experiences A Feeling That's Become ...
the Barnes & Noble Review
veteran Of 21 Novels, Chief Inspector Wexford Entered The World In 1964's from Doon With Death, ruth Rendell's Very First Book. Since Then He Has Seen It All: Crimes Of Passion, Greed, Neglect, Convenience, And Madness; Lives Extinguished And Shattered; His Own Wife Kidnapped. He Has Borne Up Under It, And Yet There Are Things Out There Undermining His Spirit: Being Called Guv Instead Of Sir Is One. Coping With The Internet And, Indeed, Computers In General, And Having To Measure The World In Centimeters Instead Of Inches Are Some More. He Also Doesn't Like Calling People He Doesn't Know By Their Given Names -- And He Doesn't Like It That No One Knows What A Given Name Is Any More. Men's Failure To Wear Neckties And The Disappearance Of Putting Milk In Tea Make Him Melancholy. And He Simply Loathes The Expression Hi, How're You? (when This Vacuous Greeting Started To Become Commonplace, Wexford Resolved Not To Answer It In Any Circumstances.) The Great Man's Inner Grousing On The Decline Of Everything Has Grown So Routine In Recent Years That I Think We Can Call Him A Codger -- Though Anyone Would Rather Spend Time With Him If The Alternative Were The Company Of His Ferociously Up-to-date, Politically Correct Sidekick, Detective Sergeant Hannah Goldsmith.
Categories:
- Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
- Mystery
- Traditional Detectives
- Mystery
Publisher : Crown
Author : Rendell, Ruth
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2008-06-10
Number Of Pages : 320
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0307406814
ISBN-13 : 9780307406811
Item weight : 1.05 lb
Dimensions : 1.2 in x 6.5 in x 9.3 in
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