No Man's Nightingale: An Inspector Wexford Novel

No Man's Nightingale: An Inspector Wexford Novel

INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELLâ€™S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS

From crime legend Ruth Rendell, the gripping new novel in her â€œbelovedâ€ (USA Today) Inspector Wexford series, which will soon mark its fiftieth anniversary.

A female vicar named Sarah Hussain is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham vicarage. Maxine, the gossipy cleaning woman who finds the body, happens to also be in the employ of former Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford and his wife. When called on by his old deputy, Wexford, who has taken to reading The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as a retirement project, leaps at the chance to tag along with the investigators. Wexford is intrigued by the unusual circumstances of the murder, but heâ€™s also desperate to escape the chatty Maxine.

A single mother to a teenage girl, Hussain was a woman working in a male-dominated profession. Of mixed race and an outspoken church reformer, she had turned some in her congregation against her, including the conservative vicarâ€™s warden. Could one of her enemies in the church have gone so far as to kill her? Or could it have been the elderly next-door gardener with a muddled alibi?

As Wexford searches the vicarâ€™s house alongside the police, he sees a book, Newmanâ€™s Apologia Pro Vita Sua, lying on Hussainâ€™s bedside table. Inside it is a letter serving as a bookmark. Without thinking much, Wexford puts it into his pocket. Wexford soon realizes he has made a grave errorâ€”heâ€™s removed a piece of evidence from the crime scene. Yet what he finds inside begins to illuminate the murky past of Sarah Hussain. Is there more to her than meets the eye?

No Manâ€™s Nightingale is Ruth Rendellâ€™s masterful twenty-fourth installment in one of the great crime series of all time.
Country USA
Brand Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 1476744483
ReleaseDate 2013-11-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781476744483

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	1476744483
ReleaseDate	2013-11-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781476744483

No Man's Nightingale: An Inspector Wexford Novel

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