New Lease of Death

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Wexford believed he'd solved Mrs Primero's murder fifteen years ago. It was no real mystery. Everyone knew Painter, her odd-job man, had done it. There had never been any doubt in anyone's mind. Until now... Henry Archery's son is engaged to Painter's daughter. Only Archery can't let the past remain buried. Zusammenfassung Wexford believed he'd solved Mrs Primero's murder fifteen years ago. It was no real mystery. Everyone knew Painter, her odd-job man, had done it. There had never been any doubt in anyone's mind. Until now... Henry Archery's son is engaged to Painter's daughter. Only Archery can't let the past remain buried....

Product details

• Authors: Ruth Rendell
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.10.2009
• EAN: 9780099534792
• ISBN: 978-0-09-953479-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Arrow Books; Inspektor Wexford; Wexford; Inspektor Wexford; Wexford
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Sussex, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, 20th Century, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Narrative theme: Interior life, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Psychological thriller, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery