The Monster in the Box

Rendell, Ruth

ISBN 10: 1439150338 / ISBN 13: 9781439150337

Published by Scribner, New York, 2009

About this Item

VG+ in VG+ dust jacket. First couple preliminary pages have a mild crease. Jacket slightly scuffed. No remainder mark, no bookplate, no previous owner markings. Jacket has no chips or tears and is not price-clipped. An Inspector Wexford mystery.

Seller Inventory # 108781

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Monster in the Box
• Publisher: Scribner, New York
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1439150338
• ISBN 13: 9781439150337
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First American Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Weight: 1 pound
• Seller catalogs:
  • mystery

About this title

Synopsis

The Monster In The Box is the latest addition to Ruth Rendell's classic and beguiling Inspector Wexford series. In this enthralling new book, Rendell, "the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world" (Time), takes Inspector Wexford back to his days as a young policeman, and to the man he has long suspected of murder -- serial murder.

Outside the house where Wexford investigated his first murder case -- a woman found strangled in her bedroom -- he noticed a short, muscular man wearing a scarf and walking a dog. He gave Wexford an unnerving stare. Without any solid evidence, Wexford began to suspect that this man -- Eric Targo, he learned -- was the killer.

Over the years there are more unsolved, apparently motiveless murders in the town of Kingsmarkham, and Wexford continues to quietly suspect that the increasingly prosperous Targo -- van driver, property developer, kennel owner, and animal lover -- is behind them.

Now, half a lifetime later, Wexford spots Targo back in Kingsmarkham after a long absence. Wexford tells his longtime partner, Mike Burden, about his suspicions, but Burden dismisses them as fantasy. Meanwhile, Burden's wife, Jenny, has suspicions of her own. She believes that the Rahmans, a highly respectable immigrant family from Pakistan, may be forcing their daughter, Tamima, into an arranged marriage -- or worse.

In The Monster in the Box, the twenty-second book in the Inspector Wexford series, fans will be thrilled to meet the now-aging inspector in the robust early days of his career. For new readers, no introduction to this spectacular writer and her compelling protagonist could be finer.

About the Author

Ruth Rendell has won numerous awards, including three Edgars, the highest accolade from Mystery Writers of America, as well as four Gold Daggers and a Diamond Dagger for outstanding contribution to the genre from England’s prestigious Crime Writer’s Association. A member of the House of Lords, she lives in London.