____________________________________ In evidenza nella classifica dei 10 migliori libri polizieschi del decennio del Times Il ventiquattresimo libro della serie bestseller Detective Chief Inspector Wexford, dall'autore di classici romanzi polizieschi e avvincenti thriller psicologici tra cui End in Tears e Thirteen Steps Down. L'impossibile è accaduto. L'ispettore capo Reg Wexford si è ritirato dalle forze dell'ordine. Lui e sua moglie, Dora, ora dividono il loro tempo tra Kingsmarkham e una rimessa per carrozze a Hampstead, di proprietà della loro figlia attrice, Sheila. Wexford trae grande piacere dai suoi libri, ma, nonostante tutti i vantaggi di uno stile di vita più rilassato, gli manca essere la mano della legge. Ma un incontro casuale in una strada di Londra, con qualcuno che aveva conosciuto brevemente quando era un giovanissimo agente di polizia, cambia tutto. Tom Ede è ora un sovrintendente detective ed è molto desideroso di reclutare Wexford come consulente per un misterioso caso di omicidio. I corpi di due donne e un uomo sono stati scoperti nella vecchia buca del carbone di una bella casa a St John's Wood. Nessuno dei cadaveri ha un'identificazione. Ma le tasche della giacca dell'uomo contengono una collana di perle, un diamante e una collana di zaffiri, oltre ad altri gioielli per un valore di circa £ 40.000. Per Wexford, questo è sicuramente un caso per cui vale la pena uscire dalla pensione. È incuriosito ed eccitato dalla sfida, ma ignaro che questo nuovo ruolo investigativo lo porterà a un estremo pericolo fisico.
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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.
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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. ____________________________________ Featured in The Times Top 10 Crime Books of the Decade The twenty-fourth book in the bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series, from the author of classic detective fiction and gripping psychological thrillers including End in Tears and Thirteen Steps Down. The impossible has happened. Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired from the crime force. He and his wife, Dora, now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and a coachhouse in Hampstead, belonging to their actress daughter, Sheila. Wexford takes great pleasure in his books, but, for all the benefits of a more relaxed lifestyle, he misses being the hand of the law. But a chance meeting in a London street, with someone he had known briefly as a very young police constable, changes everything. Tom Ede is now a Detective Superintendent, and is very keen to recruit Wexford as an adviser on a mysterious murder case. The bodies of two women and a man have been discovered in the old coal hole of an attractive house in St John's Wood. None of the corpses carry identification. But the man's jacket pockets contain a string of pearls, a diamond and a sapphire necklace as well as other jewellery valued in the region of 40,000. To Wexford, this is definitely a case worth coming out of retirement for. He is intrigued and excited by the challenge, but unaware that this new investigative role will bring him into extreme physical danger. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Codice articolo GOR003794274
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