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Author
Series
Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
The body of a middle-aged murder victim is found, and when Inspector Wexford is called in, he has the uneasy feeling he knows her.
Author
Series
Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Anita Margolis, young, beautiful, carefree, has vanished into thin air. She left her home to attend a party one wet evening, but has not been seen since. She is reported missing soon after by her brother, whom she shared a flat with, the acclaimed but eccentric artist Rupert Margolis. Inspector Burden quickly forms an impression of a wanton young girl simply gone off somewhere with a boyfriend having neglected to let anyone know. After all, she was...
Author
Series
Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and his own home and no end to the rain in sight, Chief Inspector Wexford already has his hands full when he learns that two local teenagers have gone missing along with their sitter, Joanna Troy. Their hysterical mother is convinced that all three have drowned, and as the hours stretch into days Wexford suspects a case of kidnapping, perhaps connected with an unusual sect called the Church of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
"A female Vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham Vicarage. The gossipy cleaning woman who discovers her body, Maxine, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief Inspector Wexford and his wife. When detective inspector Mike Burden calls him, Wexford, intrigued by the unusual circumstances of the murder, leaps at the chance to tag along with the investigators. A single-mother to a teenage girl, Hussein was a woman...
Author
Series
Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries volume 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this enthralling new book, Rendell, "the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world" (Time), takes Inspector Wexford back to his first murder case-a woman found strangled in her bedroom. Outside the crime scene, Wexford noticed a short, muscular man wearing a scarf and walking a dog. The man gave Wexford an unnerving stare. Without any solid evidence, Wexford began to suspect that this man-Eric Targo-was the killer. Over the years there...
Author
Series
Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Friday the thirteenth of May was most unlucky day for Sergeant Caleb Martin of Kingsmarkham CID. That day he confiscated a replica gun from his son's school briefcase and lost his life in a bank robbery -- the first link in a chain of events which led to a series of deaths. When three people are discovered shot at Tancred House, Chief Inspector Wexford suspects a connection between the two apparently unrelated crimes. But only the seventeen-year-old...
11) Death notes
Author
Series
Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Wexford and his assistant Burden unravel the threads connecting the drowning of an elderly, world-renowned flautist and the grisly murder of a woman whose identity confounds them at every turn. This time is appears that our evenhanded Inspector might have lost his perspective, beguiled by a persistently tantalizing fancy of his own making.
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