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Part of a new series of paperbacks designed as a collector's set in which Wexford investigates the death of Dawn Stonor and her link with a pop star. Rendell won the Crime Writer's Association Gold Dagger for her novel "A Demon in My View" and an Edgar Award for her story "The New Girl Friend".
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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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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. The 8th novel in Rendell's popular Inspector Wexford series. During a pop music festival in Kingsmarkham (a fictional town based on Midhurst in West Sussex), attended by about 80,000 fans, a corpse is discovered in a quarry alongside a red dress. The victim is Dawn Stonor, a local girl who became a stripper. Investigator Wexford investigates her murder and the potential involvement of the festival's headliner, rock star Zeno Vedast. This copy is near fine in blue cloth with black titles on the spine. Slightly bumped spine ends is the only issue. No other marks or damage. The unclipped DJ has slight wear at the jacket spine ends but is otherwise excellent. Signed by Rendell on the title page. From a private collection. EB20. Signed. Seller Inventory # B1063
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Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Altman, Eileen (illustrator). First Edition. Signed by the author with a dedication and dated 1977 on the title page. First US edition. Originally published in the UK in 1973 by Hutchinson. The boards have rubbing to the corners and the top and bottom of the spine but are otherwise unmarked. Browning and light spotting to the page edges. A few light marks to the front free endpaper but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has some chipping to the corners, at the top and bottom of the spine and along the edges. The front panel has a one inch closed tear to the top right corner, there is a one inch closed tear at the bottom of the spine and the rear panel has four half-inch closed tears to the top edge. Jacket design by Eileen Altman. First printing. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 019096
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