A Sleeping Life (Wexford)
by Ruth Rendell
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- Fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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About This Item
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 pushing mystery into new themes and ways of storytelling It was often said of her, as it was of Ms James, that her work transcended the genre, and that by any measure she was an enormously talented writer
She wrote more than 60 books, and her works have been translated into more than 20 languages and have had worldwide sales estimated as high as 60 million She won three prestigious Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, which named her to its list of grandmasters She also won four Gold Daggers and a Diamond Dagger from England's Crime Writers' Association
This title is the 10th book in the Wexford series, and it is in excellent condition A signed photo of the author is affixed to the ffep
.Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Stanley Louis Remarkable Books (IOBA) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AA161
- Title
- A Sleeping Life (Wexford)
- Author
- Ruth Rendell
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1978
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- wexford
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