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On a February afternoon, little Stella Rivers disappeared and was never seen again. All that remained was that cold fear and dread that touched everyone in town. In October, when the disappearance of five-year old John Lawrence was followed by evil, mad, taunting letters, Wexford summoned all his knowledge and resources to prevent another tragedy. But still he came up with nothing. Now, fighting against time and a growing sense of failure, he would have to start again.
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What kind of a person would kidnap two children?
That is the question that haunts Wexford when a five-year-old boy and a twelve-year-old girl disappear from the village of Kingsmarkham. When a child's body turns up at an abandoned country home one search turns into a murder investigation and the other turns into a race against time. Filled with pathos and terror, passion, bitterness, and loss, No More Dying Then is Rendell at her most chillingly astute.
With her Inspector Wexford novels, Ruth Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, has added layers of depth, realism and unease to the classic English mystery. For the canny, tireless, and unflappable policeman is an unblinking observer of human nature, whose study has taught him that under certain circumstances the most unlikely people are capable of the most appalling crimes.
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"Mystery writing of the highest order . . . durable, complex, and affectingly human."
--The New York Times Book Review
"If there were a craft guild for writers, I'd apprentice myself to Ruth Rendell."
--Sue Grafton
"Rendell is a master of the form."
--Washington Post Book World
"Ruth Rendell is the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world."
--Time
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No More Dying Then
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No More Dying Then
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ISBN 10: 0091081505
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Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. G, Ex-Library; tape stains to endpapers; pocket & remains of lending list on FFEP; library stamp on title-page, page 13 & on last page of text; shelfwear, one small corner bump, some soiling to the pages, foxing to the edges of the text-block, browning/G, Price-clipped; Edgewear, heavy creasing to spine hinges; tape stains to flap edges, spine fade, label ghost to spine, internal staining to spine heel. Crime drama. Jacket design by Colin Andrews. Scan on request. Seller Inventory # 021178
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No More Dying Then
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Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. London: Hutchinson of London, 1971. First Edition. Octavo; black cloth stamped in gilt, gray pastedowns and flyleaves; photo-illustrated dust jacket with price intact; 192pp. Board corners and spine ends lightly bumped, very light scuffing to front and back boards, spine slightly cocked, light toning throughout textblock, otherwise pages are unmarked and binding is sound, dust jacket is lightly worn with some chipping to corners and spine ends, else a Very Good copy with signed bookplate loosely laid in at front. A scarce first edition and the sixth in a series to feature Chief Inspector Wexford, a man known for his stout build and high blood pressure. Seller Inventory # 33142