An Unkindness of Ravens

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Pantheon Books, New York, 1985

0394546032 / 9780394546032

Serie: Libro 13 di 24 - Inspector Wexford

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245 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gold lettering to spine and cover over dark grey boards. First edition. Inspector Wexford is asked to look into the disappearance of his Kingsmarkham neighbor, Rodney Williams. Since Joy Williams is dowdy, Wexford assumes at first that her middle-aged husband has simply left her for someone younger and more attractive. Three weeks later, when Williams' abandoned car is found vandalized in a nearby town and the suitcase of clothes he had left home with is discovered in a field pool, Wexford starts to suspect that there may have been a murder. It eventually emerges that Williams was a bigamist who had been dividing his time between one home in Kingsmarkham and a second in the neighboring town of Pomfret. Years before, he had married sixteen-year old Wendy there and now has a fifteen-year-old daughter Veronica, in addition to the eighteen-year-old Sara in his other home in Kingsmarkham. The two wives only find out about each other after Williams' body is discovered in a shallow grave. He has died from multiple stab wounds. Things become more complicated when a number of young men are stabbed by teenaged girls belonging to a radical feminist group called ARRIA, whose logo is a human-headed raven. This has a large following in the local girls' schools, including those attended by relatives and friends of the two Williams families. One girl mentions to Wexford that it was not true that the two families did not know of each other since she had seen "those two women" together months before. However, intensive interviewing of Joy and Wendy Williams brings no confession, although the murder weapon is discovered plastered into a redecorated wall in Wendy’s living room. After an ARRIA member whom he has interviewed is discovered strangled in the garden of the house where they hold their meetings, Wexford finally realises that someone in the group must have been involved in the Williams murder. His suspicion turns to Sara Williams, who claims she was raped by her father when younger, since she has the motive for hating him. Wexford baits a trap for Sara, using her half-sister Veronica, and it emerges that it was these two "women" (in the eyes of ARRIA) who had been meeting secretly for months. Sara is a fantasist who had used the excuse of warning Veronica against her father to dominate her and had then used her as an accomplice in helping dispose of Williams' body once she had murdered him. Condition: Heal corner bumped, faint erasure mark to front end paper else very good to fine in a near fine jacket.…

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Titolo
An Unkindness of Ravens
Autore
Ruth Barbara Rendell (1930-2015)
Editore
Pantheon Books, New York
Anno di pubblicazione
1985
Condizione
Very Good
Sovraccoperta
Near Fine
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0394546032
ISBN 13
9780394546032
Edizione
1st Edition
Serie
Libro 13 di 24: Inspector Wexford
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