A Sleeping Life

by Rendell, Ruth

A Sleeping Life is a crime-novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1978. It features her popular investigator Detective Inspector Wexford, and is the tenth novel in the series. It was shortlisted for the Mystery Writers' Of America Edgar Award, making it one of only two Inspector Wexford novels ever to have been shortlisted for either of the "big two" crime-fiction awards, the Edgar or the CWA Gold Dagger, despite the series' huge commercial popularity.

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1978
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London: Hutchinson. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1978. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0091325404 . 172 p. 22 cm. Signed by Author Sound but slightly cocked binding in cloth-covered boards. Bottom fore-corners are knocked, moreso to the upper board. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light rub wear. Not price… Read more about this item
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London: Hutchinson, 1978. First. Fine/Fine. Ruth Barbara Rendell (1930 â€" 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries She is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford in a series of two dozen books Her Wexford stories were dramatized in a long-running BBC series Like her friend PD James, Ms Rendell was widely credited with… Read more about this item
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Little wear, other than some spine creases. 181 pages are all clean, tight and intact. The tenth of 24 novels in the Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery series. Wexford is faced with a victim who has a total lack of history. No address, no job, no banker, no friends. Set in England.
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New York; Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978., 1978. Hard Cover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo, pp. [10], 180. Publisher's black faux leather with red titles to spine in a price-clipped pictorial jacket. Light foxing to page block edges and jacket shows small areas of light rubbing with single mark to lower face; Near Fine book in like jacket. Tenth… Read more about this item
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London: Hutchinson, 1978. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. First UK Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Fine book in a fine priced dust jacket. Signed by the author in 1978 on the title page and additionally warmly inscribed. Inspector Wexford novel.
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Important association copy and inscription. From the collection of Lawrence "Larry" Ashmead, important editor with Doubleday, Simon & Schuster, and HarperCollins. Ashmead was the American editor of Rendell's Doubleday books. First American Edition. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket with slight edge wear, nice copy. Inscription: "Ruth Rendell/ Larry-love from Ruth." Rendell has been showered… Read more about this item
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