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A mutilated body found at a rock festival.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 investigating the links between a local girl gone bad and a charismatic singer who inspires an unwholesome devotion in his followers. Some Lie and Some Die is a devilishly absorbing novel, in which Wexford's deductive powers come up against the aloof arrogance of pop stardom. 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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A mutilated body found at a rock festival.
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 investigating the links between a local girl gone bad and a charismatic singer who inspires an unwholesome devotion in his followers. Some Lie and Some Die is a devilishly absorbing novel, in which Wexford's deductive powers come up against the aloof arrogance of pop stardom.
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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"Ruth Rendell is . . . a phenomenon. "
--The New York Times Book Review
"No one can take you so totally into the recesses of the human mind as does Ruth Rendell."
--The Christian Science Monitor
"Undoubtedly one of the best writers of English mysteries and chiller-killer plots."
--Los Angeles Times
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SOME LIE AND SOME DIE
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Hutchinson, London, 1973
ISBN 10: 0091150507
ISBN 13: 9780091150501
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition hardback, with dust wrapper. Clean grey boards with gilt lettering on spine. Head and tail of spine lightly rubbed. Binding is neat and tidy. Page edges are clean, yet bear some moderate discolouration and foxing. Some discolouration on pastedowns and free endpaper. the odd page throughout has a small patch of light foxing, otherwise this book is in good condition. Dust wrapper has some light rubbing and creases at the edges. Thumbing along top and bottom. Spine well thumbed, and lightly sunned. General discolouration due to age, plus the odd spot along the head edge. Back cover lightly scuffed, this dust wrapper is in fair condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously; they usually present better than they sound. Seller Inventory # FIC1605
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