A Sleeping Life

Rendell, Ruth

ISBN 10: 0385132247 / ISBN 13: 9780385132244

Published by Doubleday (edition First Edition), 1978

About this Item

The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Seller Inventory # 0385132247-7-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Sleeping Life
• Publisher: Doubleday (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385132247
• ISBN 13: 9780385132244
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

An expensive leather wallet is the only clue to the death of a woman whose baby is found on the outskirts of Kingsmarkham and whose past is completely dark

From the Back Cover

Rhoda Comfrey's death seemed unremarkable; the real mystery was her life.

In A Sleeping Life, master mystery writer Ruth Rendell unveils an elaborate web of lies and deception painstakingly maintained by a troubled soul. A wallet found in Comfrey's handbag leads Inspector Wexford to Mr. Grenville West, a writer whose plots revel in the blood, thunder, and passion of dramas of old; whose current whereabouts are unclear; and whose curious secretary -- the plain Polly Flinders -- provides the Inspector with more questions than answers. And when a second Grenville West comes to light, Wexford faces a dizzying array of possible scenarios -- and suspects -- behind the Comfrey murder. Brilliantly entertaining, exceptionally well-written, A Sleeping Life evokes the dark realities, half-truths, and flights of fancy that constitute a life.