Simisola

Rendell, Ruth

ISBN 10: 0091791618 / ISBN 13: 9780091791612

Published by Hutchinson, 1994

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Near fine condition.Hutchinson,1994.First edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2).Brown harback(gilt lettering to the spine,small scratch on the front cover)with Dj(a couple of creases and nicks on the edges of the Dj cover),both in near fine condition.Nice and clean pages with a small ink mark,nick and scratch on the outer edges.Nice and clean book in near fine condition with light shelf wear on the Dj cover.323pp.Price un-clipped. This is another paragraph Product Description: Only 18 black people live in Kingsmarkham. One is Wexford's new doctor. When the doctor's daughter goes missing, the Chief Inspector takes more than just a professional interest in the case, which tests not only his powers of deduction, but his beliefs and prejudices about racial equality.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Simisola
• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091791618
• ISBN 13: 9780091791612
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition-first printing.
• Condition: Near fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature & Fiction

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Synopsis

Simisola

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In the quiet Sussex country town of Kingsmarkham, the daughter of Nigerian physician Raymond Akande is missing. "It's probably nothing, " says Dr. Akande to his friend and client Chief Inspector Wexford, whose help he enlists.

But the days that follow prove the doctor dreadfully wrong. A young woman is found murdered not Melanie, but the last person to have seen and spoken to her. A second woman's body is discovered, again not Melanie's, but like her, young and black. A third woman turns up beaten and unconscious; like the others, she is of Nigerian origin. As Inspector Wexford's investigation stretches from days into weeks, it becomes his unhappy obligation to counter the hopes of the doctor and his wife. In Wexford's professional opinion, Melanie, like the other young women, has become the victim of a serial killer with a horrifyingly singular objective.