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L'ispettore WexfordSerie

Questa serie segue il lavoro di un esperto detective inglese che affronta casi complessi in un'ambientazione apparentemente tranquilla, ma spesso ingannevole. Insieme al suo team, svela oscuri segreti e intricate motivazioni nascoste sotto la superficie della vita quotidiana. Con un'attenzione alla psicologia dei personaggi e alle indagini meticolose, offre una lettura avvincente per gli amanti della classica narrativa poliziesca.

End in Tears
The Speaker Of Mandarin
NEW LEASE OF DEATH
The Veiled One
No Man's Nightingale
An unkindness of ravens

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    From Doon with Death

    • 182pagine
    • 7 ore di lettura
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    'Love And Death,' Said Chief Inspector Wexford. 'Those Were The Only Two Sensational Things That Ever Happened To Margaret Parsons, Love And Death. The Thing Is They Both Happened In My District.'The Police Knew All About Margaret Parsons' Life, And By The Look Of It, It Was Very Dull. Margaret Parsons Had Been A 'Good Woman'. Religious, Old-Fashioned And Respectable, Her Life Had Been As Spotless And Ordinary As Her Home, As Unexciting And Dependable As Her Marriage. But It Was Not Margaret Parsons' Life That Interested Wexford. It Was Her Death. She Had Been A Predictable, Ordinary Woman - But Now She Had Met A Death Of Passion And Violence For Which There Seemed No Motive Or Clue.

    From Doon with Death
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    NEW LEASE OF DEATH

    It's impossible to forget the violent bludgeoning to death of an elderly lady in her home. Even more so when it's your first murder case. Wexford believed he'd solved Mrs. Primero's murder fifteen years ago. It was no real mystery. Everyone knew Painter, her odd-job man, had done it. There had never been any doubt in anyone's mind. Until now. Henry Archery's son is engaged to Painter's daughter. Only Archery can't let the past remain buried. He wants to prove Wexford wrong and in probing into the lives of the witnesses questioned all those years ago, he stirs up more than old ghosts.

    NEW LEASE OF DEATH
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    Wolf to the Slaughter

    • 184pagine
    • 7 ore di lettura
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    Chief Inspector Wexford investigates the circumstances surrounding a blood-soaked hotel room which lacks any other signs of a victim, and the disappearance of a beautiful, promiscuous woman and the bundle of cash she'd had in her pocket.

    Wolf to the Slaughter
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    The Best Man to Die

    • 201pagine
    • 8 ore di lettura
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    Who could have suspected that the exciting stag party for the groom would be the prelude to the murder of his close friend Charlie Hatton? And Charlie's death was only the first in a string of puzzling murders involving small-time gangsters, cheating husbands, and loose women. Now Chief Inspector Wexford and his assistant join forces with the groom to track down a killer . . .

    The Best Man to Die
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    A Guilty Thing Surprised

    • 256pagine
    • 9 ore di lettura
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    The second book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Called in to investigate, Chief Inspector Wexford quickly determines that the Nightingales were considered the perfect couple - wealthy, attractive and without an enemy in the world. Someone who hated - or perhaps loved - her enough to beat her to death.

    A Guilty Thing Surprised
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    No more dying then : [a chief inspector Wexford mystery]

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    Detective Mike Burden's wife has just died, and his sister-in-law is staying at his house to help take care of his two children. He is so utterly miserable, and grief stricken, that he can't see how much they all need him to focus himself on his home life. Partially because of his inability to deal with his personal life, when a 5-year-old boy disappears, he throws himself whole-heartedly into the investigation. He becomes over involved with the boy's mother. The recent disappearance of a 12-year-old girl makes the case more worrisome.

    No more dying then : [a chief inspector Wexford mystery]
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    Murder Being Once Done

    • 272pagine
    • 10 ore di lettura
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    The seventh book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. But then he discovers that his nephew Howard is heading the investigation into the macabre murder of Loveday Morgan, whose body was found abandoned in Kenbourne Cemetery.

    Murder Being Once Done
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    Some Lie and Some Die

    • 272pagine
    • 10 ore di lettura
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    "When the body of a brutally beaten girl is found in a quarry during a hedonistic hippy festival at Sundays near Kingsmarkham, Wexford is first on the scene. The victim's face has been pulped by the back-end of a bottle, but who, in this atmosphere of peace and love, could be capable of such violence? The body is that of local girl turned stripper Dawn Stonor, but it is the unlikely link between this ill-fated girl and the mysterious folk-singer Zeno Vedast that pique Wexford's interest."--Back cover.

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    Put on by cunning

    • 208pagine
    • 8 ore di lettura
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    Sir Manuel Carmargue, one of the greatest flautists of his time, was dead. Misadventure. An old man, ankle-deep in snow, he lost his foothold in the dark, slipping into the water to be trapped under a lid of ice. Only a glove remained to point to where he lay, one of its fingers rising out of the drifts. There's nothing Chief Inspector Wexford likes better than an open-and-shut case. They're so restful. And yet there are one or two niggling doubts - and the disturbing return of Carmargue's daughter, now a considerable heiress, after an absence of nineteen years. Is Wexford going to listen to that nagging inner voice of his? And if he does, what exactly does he plan to do?

    Put on by cunning
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    The Speaker Of Mandarin

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    The twelfth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Having just returned from a once-in-a-lifetime holiday in China, Wexford finds himself haunted by memories of the old woman with bound feet who mysteriously followed him from one city to the next and the man who tragically drowned.

    The Speaker Of Mandarin
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    An unkindness of ravens

    • 272pagine
    • 10 ore di lettura
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    Unkindness: the collective word for a group of ravens. They are not particularly predatory birds . . . but neither are they soft and submissive. Detective Chief Inspector Wexford thought he was merely doing a neighbourly good deed when he agreed to talk to Joy Williams about her missing husband. And he certainly didn't expect to be investigating a most unusual homicide . . .

    An unkindness of ravens
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    The Veiled One

    • 312pagine
    • 11 ore di lettura
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    Chief Inspector Wexford, injured in a car bombing, must rely on Detective Mike Burden to catch a killer in what appears to be a murder without motive   Chief Inspector Wexford couldn’t know that the bundle of rags in the parking garage concealed a body. He’d just been doing a bit of light shopping, after all, not looking for dead housewives. Wexford won’t be on the case for long; a car bomb sends him to the hospital, and Inspector Mike Burden must match wits with a would-be murderer. But just how close to the edge of madness must Burden go to catch a killer?   With rich characterization Rendell plumbs the depths of human character, revealing the secrets that lie hidden in the most ordinary lives.

    The Veiled One
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    Kissing the Gunner's Daughter

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    Called to Tancred House, to a scene of ghastly carnage, Chief Inspector Wexford must bring his considerable detective skills to bear on a case with no witnesses, two suspects who have vanished into thin air, conflicting clues, and a kaleidoscope of motives.

    Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
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    La leggerezza del dovere

    • 321pagine
    • 12 ore di lettura
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    L'ispettore capo Reg Wexford è chiamato ad indagare sull'omicidio di Annette Bystock una riservata, non più giovanissima, quanto "comune", impiegata dell'ufficio assistenza all'occupazione della cittadina di Kingsmarkham, nel Sussex in una afosa estate inglese alla vigilia delle elezioni comunali. Sullo sfondo del problema della disoccupazione che coinvolge più classi sociali e generazioni, quello che appare un delitto passionale, intrecciandosi con le indagini per la scomparsa di Melanie, la figlia ventenne dei coniugi Akande (colti, benestanti, di colore), avvenuta proprio dopo una visita all'ufficio dove lavorava Annette, si allarga alla tematica della convivenza razziale e i suoi pregiudizi, che sommessamente ma consistentemente acquistano evidenza e spessore agli occhi dell'acuto Wexford che sperimenta proprio su se stesso quanto subdolo sia il pregiudizio al ritrovamento del cadavere di un giovane corpo martoriato appartenuto ad una ragazza di colore. Un crimine insospettato nella contemporanea civile Inghilterra (e non solo): la perdita del rispetto della dignità umana e che accomuna le vittime ai carnefici al tragico compiersi del progetto di inevitabile distruzione.

    La leggerezza del dovere
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    Harm Done

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    In Britain, a pedophile's house is burned by an angry mob when a girl disappears, the man having been recently released from jail. But Inspector Wexford is not swayed by the obvious and traces the disappearance to the girl's home and her abusive father.

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    The Babes in the Wood

    • 320pagine
    • 12 ore di lettura
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    A woman phoned to say she and her husband went to Paris for the weekend, leaving their children with a - well, teen-sitter, I suppose, got back last night to find the lot gone and naturally she assumes they've all drowned.'There hadn't been anything like

    The Babes in the Wood
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    End in Tears

    • 384pagine
    • 14 ore di lettura
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    A father's worst nightmare. It's first light and George Marshalson's daughter hasn't returned home. He doesn't yet know that she never will -- that her body lies prone just yards from the family house. Or that he will himself make the shocking discovery.

    End in Tears
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    Not in the flesh

    • 384pagine
    • 14 ore di lettura
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    Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury. The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, and the post-mortem can not reveal the precise cause of death. Wexford knows

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    The monster in the box

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    He had never told anyone. The strange relationship, if it could be called that, had gone on for years, decades, and he had never breathed a word about it. He had kept silent because he knew no one would believe him. None of it could be proved, not the st

    The monster in the box
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    The Vault

    • 368pagine
    • 13 ore di lettura
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    The twenty-fourth book in the bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series, from the author of classic detective fiction and gripping psychological thrillers including End in Tears and Thirteen Steps Down. Tom Ede is now a Detective Superintendent, and is very keen to recruit Wexford as an adviser on a mysterious murder case.

    The Vault
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    No Man's Nightingale

    • 352pagine
    • 13 ore di lettura
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    No Man's Nightingale: the eagerly anticipated twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell's bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series. Sarah Hussain was not popular with many people in the community of Kingsmarkham. She was born of mixed parentage - a white Irishwoman and an immigrant Indian Hindu. She was also the Reverend of St Peter's Church. But it comes as a profound shock to everyone when she is found strangled in the Vicarage. A garrulous cleaner, Maxine, also shared by the Wexfords, discovers the body. In his comparatively recent retirement, the former Detective Chief Inspector is devoting much time to reading, and is deep into Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. He has little patience with Maxine's prattle. But when his old friend Mike Burden asks if he might like to assist on this case as Crime Solutions Adviser (unpaid), Wexford is obliged to pay more precise attention to all available information. The old instincts have not been blunted by a life where he and Dora divide their time between London and Kingsmarkham. Wexford retains a relish for solving puzzles and a curiosity about people which is invaluable in detective work. For all his experience and sophistication, Burden tends to jump to conclusions. But he is wise enough to listen to the man whose office he inherited, and whose experience makes him a most formidable ally.

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  • Prostředky zla a jiné povídky

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    V pěti povídkách musí Wexford se svým týmem vyřešit zcela odlišné záhady a poradit si se zdánlivě nesourodými stopami. Jak souvisí otrava houbami s nepochopitelnou sebevraždou mladé ženy? Proč bohatá důchodkyně zemřela, zrovna když měl její lékař dovolenou? Z jakého důvodu někdo unesl z kočárku nemluvně ve chvíli, kdy v jiné části města probíhala loupež drahocenných klenotů? Proč se inspektor při dovolené v Chorvatsku díval ženám po nohách a co má společného obyčejný kalendář s tragickým případem otravy jedem? 1. vydání.

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  • Means Of Evil And Other Stories

    • 240pagine
    • 9 ore di lettura
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    What connects a kidnapped baby, a woman's body left to rot in a cove in Yugoslavia, a suspicious suicide and the century-old case of a wife who poisons her husband? Then Wexford discovers Paddy Jasper has returned to Kingsmarkham, a man previously investigated by Wexford for violently abusing a child.

    Means Of Evil And Other Stories