Ruth rendell deceased (41 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER .WELL READ PAPERBACK. .WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE - SOFT COVER EDITION- -SMALL SIZERandom House, 2010 Used A Ruth Rendell mystery, first published in 1979 and shortlisted for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best crime novel in 1980Alan Groombridge is trapped Husband to a woman he doesn't like, father to two children he never wanted, and manager of a tiny branch of the Anglian-Victoria bank, he is doomed to a life of domestic boredom and tedious routine All that keeps him afloat is his one fantasy: stealing enough of the bank's money to allow him just one year of freedom - one year in which to live a different sort of life But one day the bank is robbed, the manager and cashier disappear and what was once a place of dull and dreary repetition becomes the scene of a brutal, chilling nightmare that might never end.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. OLDER PAPERBACK. CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER .WELL READ PAPERBACK. .WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE - SOFT COVER EDITION- -SMALL SIZERuth Rendell Leicester: Random House, 1997 Used Lush green by day, darkly sinister by night, Regent's Park hosts an underworld of drug ushers and thugs, of London's homeless and the unseen killer who is impaling them, one by one, on the ornate railings that encircle the park Theirs is a world light years away from Mary Jago's elegant new home and museum job across the park Mary, in an uncharacteristic act of self-assertion, has left her abusive boyfriend and, in an act of humanity, has donated her bone marrow to a stranger She then meets the fragile young man whose life she saved--Leo, flesh of her flesh, bone of her bone, a twin soul--and becomes deeply involved with him But Mary's boldness has its price Among the park's shattered hopes and new dreams, something dark and deadly waits for her eager to rob her of something more precious than life.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. OLDER PAPERBACK. CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER .WELL READ PAPERBACK. .WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE - SOFT COVER EDITION- -SMALL SIZECrows Nest, NSW: Arrow, 1982 Used Sir Manuel Camargue, one of the greatest flautists of his time, is dead An old man, ankle-deep in snow, he lost his foothold in the dark, and slipped into the water becoming trapped under a lid of ice Only a glove remains to point to where he lies, one of its fingers rising up out of the drifts There's nothing Chief Inspector Wexford likes better than an open-and-shut case They're so restful And yet there are one or two niggling doubts - and the disturbing return of Camargue's daughter, now a considerable heiress, after an absence of nineteen years Is Wexford going to listen to that nagging inner voice of his? And if he does, what exactly does he plan to do.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. London: Random House, 2010. Used.EX LIBRARY.HARDCOVER-STAMP ON INSIDE PAGE-INCLUDES DUST JACKET-FOXING DUE TO AGE-MID SIZE.Two years ago he had been a promising young novelist. Now he survived - you could hardly call it living - in a near derelict cottage with only an unhooked telephone and his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla - the bored, rich, unstable girl with everything she needed, and a husband she wanted dead. The affair was over. But the long slide into deception and violence had just begun. . .…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. .WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE - SOFT COVER EDITION-SOME CREASES -MID/SMALL SIZERandom House, 2010 Used The seventeenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector WexfordA by-pass is planned in the sleepy village of Kingsmarkham, a move that would destroy its peace and natural habitat forever Wexford's wife Dora joins the protest movement, but Wexford must be more circumspect Trouble is expected Before the protesters even have a chance to make their presence felt, the badly decomposed body of a young woman is discovered Burden believes he knows the identity of the murderer, but Wexford is not convinced Just as Wexford is about to investigate the murder, a number of people disappear - including Dora Wexford The Chief Inspector must battle with his powerful emotions and solve the case immediately, before his wife is placed in any mortal danger.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER .WELL READ PAPERBACK. .WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE - SOFT COVER EDITION- -SMALL SIZELondon: Arrow, 1993 Used The fifteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector WexfordThe thirteenth of May is famously the unluckiest day of the year Sergeant Caleb Martin of Kingsmarkham CID had no idea just how terminally unlucky it would prove, as he embarked upon his last day on earthTen months later, Wexford is confronted with a murder scene of horrific brutality At first the bloodbath at Tancred House looks like the desperate work of a burglar panicked into murder The sole survivor of the massacre, seventeen-year-old Daisy Flory, remembers the events imperfectly, and her confused account of the fatal night seems to confirm this theory But more and more, Chief Inspector Wexford is convinced that the crime lies closer to home, and that it has sinister links to the murder of Sergeant Martin.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. London: Hutchinson, WILL COMBINE BOOKS IF POSSIBLE-MESSAGE FOR QUOTE-LARGE SIZE SOFT COVER EDITION-SOME CREASES  DUE TO AGE-AND PRIOR OWNER NAME ON INSIDE PAGE2002 Used The Babes in the Wood is a 2002 novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell It is the 19th entry in the popular Inspector Wexford series, and is set, as usual, in Kingsmarkham In 2003, it was selected by The New York Times as one of the top five crime novels of the year.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. London: Hutchinson,WILL COMBINE BOOKS IF POSSIBLE-MESSAGE FOR QUOTE-LARGE SIZE SOFT COVER MOISTURE AFFECED SOME PAGES-RESULTING IN SOME WAVING 2005 Used A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person The driver behind is spared But only for a while It is impossible for Chief Inspector Wexford not to wonder how terrible it would be to discover that one of his daughters had been murdered Sylvia has always been a cause for concern Living alone with her two children, she is pregnant again What will happen to the child? The relationship between father and daughter has always been uneasy But the current situation also provokes an emotional division between Wexford and his wife, Dora One particular member of the local press is gunning for the Chief Inspector, distinctly unimpressed with what he regards as old-fashioned police methods But Wexford, with his old friend and partner, Mike Burden, along with two new recruits to the Kingsmarkham team, pursue their inquiries with a diligence and humanity that make Ruth Rendell's detective stories enthralling, exciting and very touching" -- Cover.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. Used.EX LIBRARY.SOFT COVER-STAMP ON INSIDE PAGE-CREASES AND-FOXING DUE TO AGE-LARGE SIZE.**EX LIBRARY BOOK." Hutchinson, 1998 Used **EX LIBRARY BOOK"A Sight for Sore Eyes" tells three stories, and for the longest time, the reader has no inkling of how they will come together The first is a story of a little girl who has been scolded and sent to her room when her mother is brutally murdered; as Francine grows up, she is haunted by the experience, and it is years before she even speaks Secondly, we become privy to the life of a young man, Teddy, born of unthinking young parents, who grows up almost completely ignored Free of societal mores, he becomes a sociopath, who eventually discovers that killing can be an effective way to get what he wants Thirdly, we meet Harriet, who from an early age has learned to use her beauty to make her way in the world Bored by marriage to a wealthy, much older man, she scans the local newspapers for handymen to perform odd jobs around the house, including services in the bedroomWhen these three plots strands finally converge, the result is harrowing and unforgettable "A Sight for Sore Eyes" is not just the work of a writer at the peak of her craft It is an extraordinary story by a writer who, after 45 books, countless awards, and decades of international acclaim, is still getting better with every book.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER .SLIGHT PAGE DISCOLOURISATION DUE TO AGE.WELL READ PAPERBACK. .WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE - SOFT COVER EDITION- -SMALL SIZEENew York: Ballantine Books, 1987 Used Wealthy Alice Whittaker -- now Alice Fielding -- is known for her generosity, and when her friend Nesta vanishes Alice is determined to find her and help her If that means money, well, Alice has plenty of itThen Alice starts to feel sick -- a virus perhaps, something she just can't shake Her handsome husband, who is ten years younger than she is, seems determined to keep her at home Does he just want her to feel better? Or is he trying to keep her from finding Nesta?Ill though she is, Alice can't help asking questions And the more she learns about Nesta's disappearance, the more certain she becomes that her own life is in peril.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. WELL READ PAPERBACK. .WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE - SOFT COVER EDITION-SOME CREASES & FOXING DUE TO AGE  -SMALL SIZERandom House, 2010 Used The Copper Peacock: a hideous bookmark given to Bernard, a writer, by his attractive cleaning lady, Judy She had brought order to a hitherto chaotic life, but now the bookmark destroys all this, shattering his razor sharp sensibilities If only she had given herself, then she might have livedIn this, and eight other landmark short stories, including the Wexford tale An Unwanted Woman, Ruth Rendell once again proves she is the mistress of crime and mystery genres. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Random House, 1996 CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER .WELL READ PAPERBACK. .WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE - SOFT COVER EDITION- -SMALL SIZEUsed This collection of long and short stories probes the patterns of everyday life to pinpoint the frailties, the desires of deception, and the guilty secrets of human beings It ends with "The Strawberry Tree", a novella-length tale of lost innocence set on the island of Majorca. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. PAPERBACK - CREASES &FOXING- WELL READ  .WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTELondon: Arrow, 1994 Used Stephen Whalby loves to walk the moor It is a dark and forbidding place, but it is hisWhen the body of a young blonde woman is found there, her face horrifically disfigured, the victim of a merciless murderer, his beloved moor is tainted with suspicion and terrorThen a second woman goes missing on the moor and Stephen watches as the search party make their way across the treacherous murder scene Not to be usurped by a killer or a victim; he, and only he, is the master of the moor.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE - SOFT COVER EDITION-SOME CREASES -MID/SMALL SIZEUsed The Lake of Darkness is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1980 It won the Arts Council National Book Award for Genre Fiction in 1981 The title comes from a quotation from Shakespeare's King Lear: "Frateretto calls me; and tells me Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO SPINE. PAPERBACK. SOME CREASES .WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE - SOFT COVER SMALL SIZE PAPERBACK EDITION'Used Shake Hands For ever is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1975 It is the 9th entry in her popular Inspector Wexford series.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Arrow, 1998 Used.WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE - SOFT COVER PAPERBACK EDITION-SMALL SIZE .WELL READ WITH CREASES TO COVER AND SPINE Two stories in one bookWhen Philip Wardman's feminine ideal, a Greek goddess, appears in the flesh as Senta Pelham, Philip thinks he has found true love But darker forces are at work, and Senta is led to propose that Philip prove his love by committing murder.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. WELL USED PAPERBACK. SOME CREASES TO SPINE.WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE - SOFT COVER SMALL SIZE PAPERBACK EDITION Random House, 2010 Used The winter before he was sixteen, amateur magician Pup made a Faustian pact and sold his soul to the devil He wasn't quite sure what he was going to get in exchange Pup's older sister, Dolly, is manically obsessed with her birthmark, believing it is responsible for her status as a social outcast She becomes pathologically transfixed by Pup's dabbling in magic, desperate to believe he has occult powers that can cure her disfigurement, improve their lives, and kill their stepmother As Dolly's obsession grows, a young mentally disturbed Irishman lurks just around the corner, inseparable from his sharpened set of knivesIn this intense and deeply disturbing novel, Ruth Rendell explores a haunted world of obsession, delusions and murderous fantasy, with dazzling virtuosity.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Not Listed: Not listed, Not recorded UsedPAPERBACK EDITIONCREASES TO SPINE AND BOOK COVERS Filled with pathos and terror, passion, bitterness, and loss, No More Dying Then is Rendell at her most chillingly astute With her Inspector Wexford novels, Ruth Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, has added layers of depth.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. London: Random House, 2010 Used Victor Jenner is a sociopath After ten years in prison for shooting - and permanently crippling - a young policeman, Victor is released to a strange new world and told to make a new life for himself It's hard to adjust to civilian life, but at least there's one blessing - he was never convicted for all those rapes he committed Then Victor meets David, the policeman he shot, and David's beautiful girlfriend, Clare And suddenly Victor's new life is starting to look an awful lot like the old one. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. London:PAPERBACK. .WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE - SOFT COVER EDITION-SOME CREASES -SMALL SIZE Random House, 1994 Used When her mother, Eve, tells Liza that she must leave their remote home, the gatehouse of a country mansion, Liza is terrified Although seventeen years of age, she has never been on a bus or a train, has never played with a child of her own age She has almost no knowledge of a world described by her mother as evil and destructive Their strange, enclosed life together is over because Eve has killed a man And he is not the first With 100 pounds in cash, Liza is cast adrift However, she is not alone There is one particular secret that she has kept from her mother - her love affair with a young man who worked in the big house With him, gradually Liza learns about the world, about herself, and must come to terms with the possibility that the murderous violence of her mother may be present in her" -back cover.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. London:PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO SPINE AND BOOK COVERS.MARK ON FRONT COVER.WELL USED PAPERBACK. SOME CREASES .WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE - SOFT COVER SMALL SIZE PAPERBACK EDITION' Random House, 2001 Used Piranha to Scurfy is a short story collection by British writer Ruth Rendell, published in 2000 The collection takes its unusual name from the first story featured, which itself is named after a volume of the Encyclop?dia Britannica.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO SPINE AND BOOK COVERS.MARK ON FRONT COVER.WELL USED PAPERBACK. SOME CREASES .WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE - SOFT COVER SMALL SIZE PAPERBACK EDITION'Not Listed: Not listed, Not recorded Used Some Lie Some Die and No More Dying Then.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. .WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE - SOFT COVER PAPERBACK EDITION-SMALL SIZE .2007 Used The second book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector WexfordSome cases are impossible to buryIt's impossible to forget the violent bludgeoning to death of an elderly lady in her home Even more so when it's your first murder caseWexford 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 nowHenry Archery's son is engaged to Painter's daughter Only Archery can't let the past remain buried He wants to prove Wexford wrong, and in probing into the lives of the witnesses questioned all those years ago, he stirs up more than old ghosts.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE - SOFT COVER EDITION-MID/SMALL SIZE Random House, 2005 Used A classic Rendellian loner, Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number 13 Living in a decaying house in Notting Hill, Mix is obsessed with 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious John Christie committed a series of foul murders He is also infatuated with a beautiful model who lives nearby - a woman who would not look at him twice Mix's landlady, Gwendolen Chawcer is equally reclusive - living her life through her library of books Both landlady and lodger inhabit weird worlds of their own But when reality intrudes into Mix's life, a long pent-up violence explodes.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. WELL USED PAPERBACK. SOME CREASES .WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE - SOFT COVER SMALL SIZE PAPERBACK EDITION'Random House, 2002 Used 'Adam And Eve And Pinch Me Went Down To The River To Batheadam And Eve Were Drowned Who Was Saved?'This Old Nursery Rhyme Is A Favourite Of Jerry Leach (If That Is The Name He Is Using At The Time), A Handsome Ne'Er Do Well, Who Sponges Off Women Five Women, Unknown To Each Other, Are His Willing Victims One He Even Married Once And Abandoned, While Promising To Marry Another But, With The Cruel Irony He Would Be The First To Recognize In That Nursery Rhyme, Jerry, Almost Accidentally, Becomes The Victim Of One Of His Female Prey 'Minty Knox Sees Ghosts And Because This Is Rendell Territory, We Know This Will Not Be A Supernatural Thriller But Rather An Exploration Of What Happens When Personal Delusions Collide With Reality-With Her Usual Deft Touch, Ruth Rendell Pulls The Strands Of Her Story Together, Weaving A Taut And Terrifying Narrative Which Reminds Us That Nothing We Do Is Without Consequence, Nor Are Those Consequences Ever Within Our Control' Val Mcdermid, Daily Express.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. PAPERBACK. .WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE - SOFT COVER EDITION-SOME CREASES -MID/SMALL SIZEArrow, 2004 Used Two plotlines run through this crime novel The main adult protagonist is John Creevey who stumbles upon a series of hidden coded messages which he thinks must be the work of criminals or spies John is unhappy and depressed His wife Jennifer has left him for Peter Moran, her old fianc?, and he cannot accept that she will not return to him He is still affected by the murder of his sister 16 years ago and Mark, her fianc?, is equally unhappy John becomes obsessed by unravelling the codes, spending hours trying to break them.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. London: Arrow, 1994 PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO SPINE. PAPERBACK.  .WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE - SOFT COVER SMALL SIZE PAPERBACK EDITIONUsed Anita Margolis has vanished There was no body, no crime - nothing more concrete than an anonymous letter and the intriguing name of Smith According to headquarters, it wasn't to be considered a murder enquiry at all Inspector Burden had no trouble in seeing a pattern in the Margolis case Not only had Anita been wealthy and flighty, she had been thoroughly immoral as well Decent women had clean, tidy homes, and were either married or had jobs, or both They didn't live with eccentric artist brothers, or bring lovers home in the afternoon They also knew enough to keep their money in the bank, not in their handbags Burden could see exactly what had happened to Anita Margolis Chief Inspector Wexford, however, had other ideas-.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. London: PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO SPINE AND BOOK COVERS.MARK ON FRONT COVER.WELL USED PAPERBACK. SOME CREASES .WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE - SOFT COVER SMALL SIZE PAPERBACK EDITION'Arrow, 1999 Used Martin Urban is a quiet bachelor with a comfortable life, free of worry and distractions When he unexpectedly comes into a small fortune, he decides to use his newfound wealth to help out those in need Finn also leads a quiet life, and comes into a little money of his own Normally, their paths would never have crossed But Martins ideas about who should benefit from his charitable impulses yield some unexpected results, and soon the good intentions of the one become fatally entangled with the mercenary nature of the other In the Lake of Darkness, Ruth Rendell takes the old adage that no good deed goes unpunished to a startling, haunting conclusion The Veiled One:-Chief Inspector Wexford, injured in a car bombing, must rely on Detective Mike Burden to catch a killer in what appears to be a murder without motive Chief Inspector Wexford couldn?t know that the bundle of rags in the parking garage concealed a body He?d just been doing a bit of light shopping, after all, not looking for dead housewives Wexford won?t be on the case for long; a car bomb sends him to the hospital, and Inspector Mike Burden must match wits with a would-be murderer But just how close to the edge of madness must Burden go to catch a killer? With rich characterization Rendell plumbs the depths of human character, revealing the secrets that lie hidden in the most ordinary lives.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. PAPERBACK - CREASES - WELL READ  .WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE Random House, 2010 Used The first murder victim had a bite mark on her neck When the tabloids got hold of the story, they immediately called the deranged killer 'The Rottweiler', and the name stuck The latest body was discovered very near Inez Ferry's antique shop in Marylebone Someone spotted a shadowy figure running away past the station, but couldn't say for sure if it was a man or a woman There were only two other clues The murderer seemed to have a preference for strangling his victims and then removing something personal - like a cigarette lighter or a necklace Trinkets very similar to those mysteriously appearing in Inez's shop Since her actor husband died, too early into their marriage, Inez supplemented her modest income by taking in tenants above the shop As her collection of antique trinkets grows, so does Inez's fear that she is harbouring a psychopathic murderer. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. PAPERBACK - CREASES - WELL READ  .WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-MESSAGE FOR A QUOTE Hutchinson, 1990 Used A Detective Chief Inspector Wexford novel The fatal car accident involving the stockbroker Fanshawe couldn't possibly be connected with the murder of a cocky little lorry driver But was it a coincidence that the latter died the day after Mrs Fanshawe regained consciousness.…