No More Dying Then. An Inspector Wexford Mystery.

Ruth Rendell.

ISBN 10: 0553137840 / ISBN 13: 9780553137842

Published by Bantam Books 1980 [1972], New York, London, Toronto, 1980

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210 pages, previous owner's name neatly on first leaf, light spine wear. January printing. Rendell, 1930-2015, was an English crime writer known for her tight plots and sharp insights. She was the recipient of awards from the Mystery Writers of America and Crime Writers' Association, and several of her works have been adapted for film and television. Softcover, mass market paperback.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: No More Dying Then. An Inspector Wexford Mystery.
• Publisher: Bantam Books 1980 [1972], New York, London, Toronto
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553137840
• ISBN 13: 9780553137842
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature, Fiction

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Synopsis

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.From the Trade Paperback edition.

From the Inside Flap

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.