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A Dark-Adapted Eye
two women fight over someone. the frightening effect of their fight can be brought to resolution...or will it?...

A Sight For Sore Eyes
The lives of several Londoners cross with disturbing results when an obsessive and remorseless young woodworking art student named Teddy Brex comes of...

A Sleeping Life
Wexford and Burden investigate the death of a middle aged woman in Kingsmarkham. All the clues point to her London life, but they find no trace of her...

Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
This is an excellent story about a woman who on the surface appears fairly normal, if not a bit odd at times, but in actual fact after having a relati...

Anna's Book
Three seemingly unrelated story-threads, a famous diary, the transcript of a murder trial, and a contemporary narrative by the diarist's granddaughte...

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End in Tears
Wexford is a policeman in a middling size British town. The case begins when a piece of concrete is dropped from a bridge onto a car. Later, a youn...



From Doon with Death
This was Ruth Rendell's first published book and her reader's first introduction to Chief Inspector Wexford and Inspector Burden and the Sussex distri...

Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
In perhaps her most exciting Inspector Wexford mystery, English writer Ruth Rendell provides great fare in “Kissing the Gunner's Daughter.” Three b...

Put On By Cunning
Is the death of eminent flautist Sir Manuel Carmague an accident? It certainly looks that way to Inspector Wexford and the investigating team. The o...

Road Rage
Inspector Wexford case this time involves something more personal. This time his wife Dora has been taken hostage and he fears for her life. In "Ro...

Simisola
Inspector Wexford comes face to face to one of the most disturbing crimes in his career. Or is it a crime? A young immigrant housecleaner is missin...

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The Face of Trespass
Gray (Graham Lanceton) is a writer living in poverty and loneliness in a shabby cottage in Epping Forest. He has written a book, The Wine of Astonishm...

The Rottweiler
Crown, Nov 2004, ISBN: 1400051908 In London, a murder victim had a bite on her neck so the media dubbed the killer The Rottweiler”, but that i...

Thirteen Steps Down
As the story unfolds we learn that Gwendolen was one of those females whose life was determined and controlled by her overbearing father. After her mo...

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