Some Lie and Some Die (Signed)

Ruth Rendell

ISBN 10: 038507428X / ISBN 13: 9780385074285

Published by The Crime Club, Doubleday & Co, New York, 1973

About this Item

The 8th novel in Rendell's popular Inspector Wexford series. During a pop music festival in Kingsmarkham (a fictional town based on Midhurst in West Sussex), attended by about 80,000 fans, a corpse is discovered in a quarry alongside a red dress. The victim is Dawn Stonor, a local girl who became a stripper. Investigator Wexford investigates her murder and the potential involvement of the festival's headliner, rock star Zeno Vedast. This copy is near fine in blue cloth with black titles on the spine. Slightly bumped spine ends is the only issue. No other marks or damage. The unclipped DJ has slight wear at the jacket spine ends but is otherwise excellent. Signed by Rendell on the title page. From a private collection. EB20.

Seller Inventory # B1063

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Some Lie and Some Die (Signed)
• Publisher: The Crime Club, Doubleday & Co, New York
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 038507428X
• ISBN 13: 9780385074285
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First American edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed/Inscribed
  • Mystery
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Part of a new series of paperbacks designed as a collector's set in which Wexford investigates the death of Dawn Stonor and her link with a pop star. Rendell won the Crime Writer's Association Gold Dagger for her novel "A Demon in My View" and an Edgar Award for her story "The New Girl Friend".

From the Inside Flap

A mutilated body found at a rock festival.
In spite of dire predictions, the rock festival in Kingsmarkham seemed to be going off without a hitch, until the hideously disfigured body is discovered in a nearby quarry. And soon Wexford is investigating the links between a local girl gone bad and a charismatic singer who inspires an unwholesome devotion in his followers. Some Lie and Some Die is a devilishly absorbing novel, in which Wexford's deductive powers come up against the aloof arrogance of pop stardom.
With her Inspector Wexford novels, Ruth Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, has added layers of depth, realism and unease to the classic English mystery. For the canny, tireless, and unflappable policeman is an unblinking observer of human nature, whose study has taught him that under certain circumstances the most unlikely people are capable of the most appalling crimes.