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Ruth Rendell: A Sleeping Life (UK 2010) From the Publisher: There are only two things that surprise Wexford about the murder scene. One, that the only contents of the woman's handbag are some keys and a wallet containing nothing but some money. And two, how even in death, her deathly grey eyes possess a scornful glare. The woman turns out to be Rhoda Comfrey, but there's no murder weapon, no apparent motive, and no one who actually cares she's died. Wexford's only hunch is that the clues to her murder must lie in her solitary London life. But her existence there becomes frustratingly impossible to trace. Ruth Rendell: A Sleeping Life. A Wexford Case. Arrow, ISBN 9780099534891 (February, 2010), 272 p., £7.99.
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Ruth Rendell: A Sleeping Life (USA 2000) From the Publisher: Brilliantly entertaining, exceptionally crafted, A Sleeping Life evokes the dark realities, half-truths, and flights of fancy that constitute a life. Ruth Rendell: A Sleeping Life. An Inspector Wexford Mystery. Vintage, ISBN: 0375704930 (July, 2000), 192 p., $11.00.
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Ruth Rendell: A Sleeping Life (UK 1994) From the Publisher: The woman was a stranger. Her handbag held little more than three keys on a ring and forty-two pounds in a new wallet. There was nothing to give him her address, her occupation or even her identity -- let alone any clues that might lead to her killer. The woman was dead but, as Wexford knew only too well, death by murder is, in a way, not an ending but a beginning. Ruth Rendell: A Sleeping Life. An Inspector Wexford Mystery. Arrow, ISBN 0099199807 (April, 1994), 224 p., £4.99 (?).
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