Buy this book on-line RENDELL**, RUTH: : THE VEILED ONE - An Inspector Wexford Mystery.**LONDON.HUTCHINSON,1988. ISBN 009173469X.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. NFINE/VG. No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj - designed by Raymond Hawkey, author's b/w portrait photographic rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears.Both head +foot of spine/backstrip minisculaly bumped with reciprocal creasing and inevitable minor scoring /indents to dw/dj panels.Top edge has small splash/stain,fore-edge brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight and clean.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.Book has a slight spine roll.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1-277pp [paginated] includes 21 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication and 2pp blanks at rear.Author's 14th Inspector Wexford novel.
The woman's body lay between a silver Escort and a dark-blue Lancia.Concealed by a shroud of dirty brown velvet,it looked like a heap of rags.
In the desolate subterranean car park of the Barringdean Shopping Centre,Reg Wexford had been too preoccupied to notce anything out of the ordinary,just the time and a red car driving past him,rather too fast.
Burden called him at home with the grim news later that evening.The woman had been attacked from behind,perhaps with a thin length of cord or wire.
Before Inspector Wexford can delve deeper into this curious homicide,he,too,faces death.And Burden,for a while conducting the investigation without the help of his chief's instinctive analytical genius,will blunder down a number of blind alleys . . . .
'The Veiled One' is dark,complex and full
of surprises.Even by Ruth Rendell's superlative standards,this is probably the most exciting Inspector Wexford mystery to date (then 1988).
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