A 50th anniversary edition of the first Inspector Wexford novel, with an introduction by Ian Rankin and a new afterword by Ruth Rendell.
A 50th anniversary edition of the first Inspector Wexford novel, with an introduction by Ian Rankin and a new afterword by Ruth Rendell.
Ruth Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, and will be
remembered as a legend in her own lifetime. Her groundbreaking
debut novel, From Doon With Death, was first published in 1964 and
introduced the reader to her enduring and popular detective,
Inspector Reginald Wexford, who went on to feature in twenty-four
of her subsequent novels.
With worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, Rendell
was a regular Sunday Times bestseller. Her sixty bestselling novels
include police procedurals, some of which have been successfully
adapted for TV, stand-alone psychological mysteries, and a third
strand of crime novels under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. Very much
abreast of her times, the Wexford books in particular often engaged
with social or political issues close to her heart.
Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers'
Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon in
My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday
Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime
Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained
excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in
1997 became a Life Peer.
Ruth Rendell died in May 2015. Her final novel, Dark Corners, was
published in October 2015.
As Wexford’s investigation gathers pace, we experience the
conflicts and contradictions of the Sixties when the social fabric
was turned inside-out . . . a classic mystery, as true to life now
as it was half a century ago.
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