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Meanwhile, a beautiful, promiscuous woman goes missing - as does the bundle of cash she was carrying. But Wexford and Burden have different theories about the disappearance of the eccentric Anita Margolis. Who is Geoff Smith? Who sent the anonymous letter? Inspector Wexford and his team appear nowhere nearer solving the mystery. Perhaps if the missing girl's body could be located things would becomes clearer.
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But where to begin? A gold lighter is found and provides a vital clue to the girl's disappearance. Its inscription reads 'For the girl who lights up my life' but which girl? And where is the body? Wexford and his colleagues now knows the identity of Anita Margolis's killer, but there is a problem - he died some 18 months before the murder.
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Are the detectives' investigations at a halt? Wexford finds he is dealing with a very nasty case when nature-loving Elizabeth Nightingale is murdered on one of her nightly walks through the woods around Myfleet Manor. Angela Hathall is murdered, but Wexford can find no motive and no suspect. Maybe she picked up a stranger who killed her? The line Wexford follows alienates not just his colleagues, including Mike Burden, but his wife, too.
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A baby has been stolen from its pram and another baby left behind in its place, and it seems that the mother of the stolen child may also be in danger. Wexford investigates the disappearance of John Lawrence, a five-year-old boy. After he goes missing, mad, taunting letters begin to arrive, involving another child who vanished, Stella Rivers. Wexford investigates when the dead body of a middle aged woman is found - but there are very few clues to the woman's life, let alone those that might lead to her killer. Gwen Robson, a middle-aged housewife who may have been a blackmailer, is found garotted in the car park of a suburban shopping mall.
Wexford is no sooner on the case than a car bomb goes off and all but kills him, putting him in hospital. This leaves Mike Burden with the task of solving the case, but does he go off on the wrong scent? Is Wexford's analysis any better, though? The Kingsmarkham rock festival is going smoothly until the disfigured body of a local girl, thought to be living in London, is found in a nearby quarry.
Wexford investigates the links between a charismatic singer and a young woman gone bad. Wexford joins forces with a bridegroom when his best man is killed at the stag party. And Charlie Hatton's death is only the first in a string of murders which seem to be about cheating husbands, loose women and gangsters.
Rodney Williams disappears and then his body found in the woods. Wexford investigates and finds more than one mystery. When a world-famous flautist is murdered, Wexford wonders if his recently returned daughter had anything to do with it. He becomes obsessed with proving that she is an imposter, even getting permission to travel as far afield as the USA and France to do so. Wexford's first ever successful murder case comes back to haunt him when a vicar starts to rake up the past. Was the man hanged on Wexford's evidence actually innocent?
Wexford collapses from overwork so is put on a month's leave. Instead of resting though, he decides to go and visit Mike, who is seconded to London. Although he should be resting, Wexford's dreams have drawn him towards Mike's case of a young murdered girl left lying in a vault, and a strong connection to the baby adoption business. Margaret Parsons, a fairly ordinary housewife who, with her water board official husband Ron, has recently moved to Kingsmarkham, is found murdered in a field.
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It happened with Dick Francis, Ross Macdonald, and many others: Miss Rendell is a consistently pleasurable performer who involves you in her most convincing characters as much as the crime Amazon Renewed Refurbished products with a warranty. Reg becomes transfixed by the wife, and is shocked when he gets back home to hear she has been kidnapped. Sarasande Wake rated it really liked it Jan 16,
Glencoe Public Library Borrow it. Carousel Grid List Card. Copy to clipboard Close. Cite Data - Experimental. Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces. Collected stories, Ruth Rendell Local Identifier http: Excellent - I really liked the short story format and unusually for a collection, almost every one of them is very good.
Quite interesting novels with rather unexpected finals,though rather depressing.
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This was a very disappointing collection of short stories. They are all set in England circa and have a very dated feel about them.
Most involve marital couples with some sort of discord. Of the dozens of short stories maybe only stand out. The rest are decidedly "meh".
Buy Collected Stories: "Means of Evil", The Fallen Curtain", "The Fever Tree" v. "You Can't Be too Careful" are other standouts, but these are all great stories. Collected Stories: "Means of Evil", The Fallen Curtain", "The Fever Tree" v. 1 and I find them very useful for journeys and waiting times when I don't want to be .
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