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Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB)
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Condition: Used - Fine
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True (UK) first edition, first printing. A fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. 181 pp. A suspense novel featuring Rendell's recurring character Chief Inspector Wexford. A woman is found stabbed to death on the outskirts of Kingsmarkham; she is quickly identifies as the 50 year old daughter of an old fellow in a nearby village but no one knew anything of where she had lived or what she had done since leaving home 20 years earlier. Wexford's only clue---the expensive leather wallet in her handbag.
Seller Inventory # E36948
- Title
- A Sleeping Life
- Author
- Ruth Rendell
- Publisher
- Hutchinson, London
- Publication year
- 1978
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0091325404
- ISBN 13
- 9780091325404
- Edition
- First edition.
- Series
- Book 10 of 24: Inspector Wexford
- Seller catalogs
- Mystery
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From the Back Cover
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.
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