by Ruth Rendell
bookshelves: summer-2015, tbr-busting-2015, series, first-in-series, mystery-thriller, sussex, lit-richer, published-1964, britain-england Read from June 15 to 20, 2015 Read by................ Terence HardimanTotal Runtime......... 5 Hours 28 MinsDescription: Margaret Parsons is dead. She appea...
Good quick read. Nothing great, but not bad.
First Weford book- will continue reading series!
I've read a few of Ruth Rendell's mysteries now and they're OK, not my favorites. Wexford is an interesting character, though.
I've read a few of Ruth Rendell's mysteries now and they're OK, not my favorites. Wexford is an interesting character, though.
My first experience of Ruth Rendell and the first Inspector Wexford book. Given this this book was first published in 1964 I was somewhat surprised by the plot.It begins in a very unassuming way, with the disappearance of Margaret Parsons. A dowdy woman, who is reported missing by her husband. th...
Published in 1979, this was the first Inspector Wexford novel and it seems very dated now with its rather stagey bunch of characters and its old-fashioned attitude towards lesbianism. Nevertheless it's well-written and a great deal more absorbing than a lot of British crime fiction produced since th...
In the late eighties and nineties I gobbled Rendell's Inspector Wexford novels as if they were Godiva chocolates. If they were? They really were premium goodies for someone like me who'd barely progressed beyond Golden Age crime fiction at that time. She had a way of getting at psychology that was l...
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