A Sleeping Life [electronic resource]
Rendell, Ruth2010
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The body found under the hedge was that of a middle-aged woman, biggish and gaunt. The grey eyes were wide and staring, and in them Detective Chief Inspector Wexford thought he saw a sardonic gleam, a glare, even in death, of scorn. But that must have been his imagination, and imagination was almost all he had to go on The body found under the hedge was that of a middle-aged woman, biggish and gaunt. The grey eyes were wide and staring, and in them Detective Chief Inspector Wexford thought he saw a sardonic gleam, a glare, even in death, of scorn. But that must have been his imagination, and imagination was almost all he had to go on. The woman was a stranger. Her handbag held little more than three keys on a ring and forty-two pounds in a new wallet. There was nothing to give him her address, her occupation or even her identity – let alone any clues that might lead to her killer. The woman was dead, but, as Wexford knew only too well, death, by murder is, in a way, not an end but a beginning...
Main title:
A Sleeping Life [electronic resource] / Ruth Rendell
Author:
Rendell, Ruth, AuthorBaker, George, Narrator
Edition:
Abridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2010
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
Series:
Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
A crime writer for over thirty years, Ruth Rendell has won one Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger Award, two Gold Daggers and, the supreme accolade, the Crime Writers' Diamond Award for her outstanding contribution to the genre.
ISBN:
9780007159468
Language:
English
BRN:
2792848
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