The Second Wexford Omnibus: A Guilty Thing Surprised,No More Dying Then and Murder Being Once Done - Softcover

Rendell, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099666405 ISBN 13: 9780099666400

Publisher: Arrow, 1989

Synopsis

An omnibus edition of three of Ruth Rendell's Wexford mysteries. They feature the discovery of sinister undercurrents when an apparently respectable woman is murdered, evil letters that make unspoken imaginings a brutal reality, and the killing of a girl in a gloomy London cemetery.

About this title

About the Author:

Ruth Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, and will be remembered as a legend in her own lifetime. Her groundbreaking debut novel, From Doon With Death, was first published in 1964 and introduced the reader to her enduring and popular detective, Inspector Reginald Wexford, who went on to feature in twenty-four of her subsequent novels.

With worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, Rendell was a regular Sunday Times bestseller. Her sixty bestselling novels include police procedurals, some of which have been successfully adapted for TV, stand-alone psychological mysteries, and a third strand of crime novels under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. Very much abreast of her times, the Wexford books in particular often engaged with social or political issues close to her heart.

Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for 1976’s best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.

Ruth Rendell died in May 2015. Her final novel, Dark Corners, is scheduled for publication in October 2015

From the Back Cover:

Three compelling Wexford mysteries in one volume:

A GUILTY THING SURPRISED
Someone must have had good reason to murder Mrs Elizabeth Nightingale on a dark September night. And as Detective Chief Inspector Wexford investigates, he discovers sinister undercurrents and dramatic secrets beneath the placid surface of the Nightingales' lives...

NO MORE DYING THEN
Seven-and-a-half months after the first disappearance, five-year-old John Lawrence failed to come home. It was only then that the letters began. Evil, mad, taunting letters - letters that made the worst, unspoken imaginings a brutal reality...

MURDER BEING ONCE DONE
In a gloomy London cemetery, a girl is found murdered: a girl with a name that isn't hers, a girl with no friends, no possessions and no past. It shouldn't have been a case for Wexford - but it is destined to become one of the most macabre and challenging investigations of his career...

About this edition

• Publisher: Arrow
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0099666405
• ISBN 13: 9780099666400
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528