From Doon With Death by Ruth Rendell
Book 34 of 2014
From Doon With Death by Ruth Rendell
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This first Inspector Wexford book (as well as the first book Ruth Rendell published) begins with a Mr. Ronald Parsons reporting to Inspector Burden of the Kingsmarkham police that his wife is missing. Burden is a little annoyed because he's off duty and is going to the cinema with his wife and Margaret has only been gone a couple of hours. More than likely she'll show up soon, and all will be well. But all is not well because the next day her body is found in the woods, strangled. The investigation begins with the most solid clue being a set of books received by the murdered woman when she was in school twelve years previous inscribed from "Doon" to "Minna". Who is Doon, and what part, if any, did he play in Margaret's death.
I enjoyed this book, and liked Wexford and Burden quite a bit. Published in 1964, Rendell brings in a few twists and turns that were probably quite shocking for the time.
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From Doon With Death by Ruth RendellMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This first Inspector Wexford book (as well as the first book Ruth Rendell published) begins with a Mr. Ronald Parsons reporting to Inspector Burden of the Kingsmarkham police that his wife is missing. Burden is a little annoyed because he's off duty and is going to the cinema with his wife and Margaret has only been gone a couple of hours. More than likely she'll show up soon, and all will be well. But all is not well because the next day her body is found in the woods, strangled. The investigation begins with the most solid clue being a set of books received by the murdered woman when she was in school twelve years previous inscribed from "Doon" to "Minna". Who is Doon, and what part, if any, did he play in Margaret's death.
I enjoyed this book, and liked Wexford and Burden quite a bit. Published in 1964, Rendell brings in a few twists and turns that were probably quite shocking for the time.
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