A Sleeping Life (Signed)

Rendell, Ruth

ISBN 10: 0091325404 / ISBN 13: 9780091325404

Published by Hutchinson, London, 1978

About this Item

172 p. 22 cm. Signed by Author Sound but slightly cocked binding in cloth-covered boards. Bottom fore-corners are knocked, moreso to the upper board. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light rub wear. Not price clipped - £9.95. The 10th Inspector Wexford novel. Signed by Ruth Rendell on the title page.

Seller Inventory # 6601

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Sleeping Life (Signed)
• Publisher: Hutchinson, London
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091325404
• ISBN 13: 9780091325404
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Second Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

A sleeping life

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.