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THE VEILED ONE - An Inspector Wexford Mystery.**

by RENDELL**, RUTH:

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ISBN 10
009173469X
ISBN 13
9780091734695
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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 minisculely 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.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp- cornered publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped 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.). Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
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Title
THE VEILED ONE - An Inspector Wexford Mystery.**
Author
RENDELL**, RUTH:
Book Condition
Used - Near FINE.
Jacket Condition
VG.
Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
009173469X
ISBN 13
9780091734695
Publisher
LONDON.HUTCHINSON,1988.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
1988
Keywords
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