Shake Hands Forever

Rendell, Ruth

ISBN 10: 0385099398 / ISBN 13: 9780385099394

Published by Doubleday, New York, 1975

About this Item

1st US ed; 8vo; white boards; vg- in good+ dj. Sltly cocked; yellowing to edges of boards and spine; spine ends bumped and worn. Yellowing to spine and edges of dj; spine head chipped and water stained (one chip repaired w/paper mending tape); spine tail chipped w/two tears; tear and chip to top corner rear flap; panels rubbed.Book 9 of the Inspector Wexford series.

Seller Inventory # 13210

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shake Hands Forever
• Publisher: Doubleday, New York
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385099398
• ISBN 13: 9780385099394
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good-
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery

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Synopsis

The bed was neatly made, and the woman on top neatly strangled. According to all accounts, Angela Hathall was deeply in love with her husband and far too paranoid to invite an unknown person into their home. So who managed to gain entry and strangle her without a struggle? That is the problem facing Inspector Wexford in Shake Hands Forever . Perhaps it was the mystery woman who left her fingerprints on the Hathall's bathtub? Perhaps it was Angela's husband who lied about a stolen library book? And why was the Hathall home, usually so unkempt, exqisitely clean the day of Angela's death? Then a neighbor—friendly, knowing, disarmingly beautiful—offers Wexford her assistance. And what begins as a rather tricky case turns into an obsession that threatens to destroy the Inspector's career—as well as his marriage. Maddeningly addictive, smart and surprising, Shake Hands Forever showcases Ruth Rendell at the height of her storytelling powers.

From the Back Cover

The bed was neatly made, and the woman on top neatly strangled.

According to all accounts, Angela Hathall was deeply in love with her husband and far too paranoid to invite an unknown person into their home. So who managed to gain entry and strangle her without a struggle? That is the problem facing Inspector Wexford in Shake Hands Forever. And what begins as a rather tricky case turns into an obsession that threatens to destroy the Inspector's career -- as well as his marriage. Maddeningly addictive, smart and surprising, Shake Hands Forever showcases Ruth Rendell at the height of her storytelling powers.