A Sleeping Life

By - Rendell, Ruth

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y., 1978

ISBN 10 - 0099199807

ISBN 13 - 9780099199809

Book Status - 2 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Police

Shelf No - 9

Call Number - 823.914 REN

Physical Description - 180 pages ; 22 cm

Notes - Includes Index

Book Information

Rhoda Comfrey's death seemed unremarkable; the real mystery was her life. In A Sleeping Life, master mystery writer Ruth Rendell unveils an elaborate web of lies and deception painstakingly maintained by a troubled soul. A wallet found in Comfrey's handbag leads Inspector Wexford to Mr. Grenville West, a writer whose plots revel in the blood, thunder, and passion of dramas of old; whose current whereabouts are unclear; and whose curious secretary--the plain Polly Flinders--provides the Inspector with more questions than answers. And when a second Grenville West comes to light, Wexford faces a dizzying array of possible scenarios--and suspects--behind the Comfrey murder. Brilliantly entertaining, exceptionally crafted, A Sleeping Life evokes the dark realities, half-truths, and flights of fancy that constitute a life. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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