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The monster in the box - Ruth Rendell

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Title
The monster in the box

Author
Ruth Rendell

format
Hardback

Publisher
Hutchinson

Language
English

UK Publication Date
20091001

Description

The twenty-second book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.

Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo's short, muscular figure. And yet there he was, back in Kingsmarkham, still with that cocky, strutting walk.

Years earlier, when Wexford was a young police officer, a woman called Elsie Carroll had been found strangled in her bedroom. Although many still had their suspicions that her husband was guilty of her violent murder, no one was convicted.

Another woman was strangled shortly afterwards, and every personal and professional instinct told Wexford that the killer was still at large. And that it was Eric Targo. A psychopathic murderer who would kill again...

As the Chief Inspector investigates a new case, Ruth Rendell looks back to the beginning of Wexford's career as a detective, even to his courtship of the woman who would become his wife. The villainous Targo is not the only ghost from Wexford's past who has re-emerged to haunt him in the here and now...

Ruth Rendell is the Queen of British crime writing. The author of over 50 novels, she has won many significant crime fiction awards. Her first novel,From Doon With Death, appeared in 1964, and since then her reputation and readership have grown steadily with each new book.

She has received major awards for her work; three Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America; the Crime Writers' Gold Dagger Award for 1976's best crime novel,A Demon in My View; the Arts Council National Book Award for Genre Fiction in 1981 forThe Lake of Darkness; the Crime Writer's Gold Dagger Award for 1986's best crime book forLive Flesh; in 1987 the Crime Writer's Gold Dagger Award forA Fatal Inversionand in 1991 the same award forKing Solomon's Carpet, both written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine; theSunday TimesLiterary Award in 1990; and in 1991 the Crime Writer's Cartier Diamond Award for outstanding contribution to the crime fiction genre.

Her books are translated into 21 languages. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.

Type
BOOK

Edition
Hardback original

Keyword Index
Wexford, Inspector (Fictitious character) - Fiction.|Kingsmarkham (England : Imaginary place) - Fiction.|Police - England - Fiction.|Detective and mystery stories.

Country of Publication
England

Number of Pages
288