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A Sleeping Life (Inspector Wexford) (Hardcover)

by Ruth Rendell (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 172 pages
  • Publisher: Hutchinson (8 May 1978)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0091325404
  • ISBN-13: 978-0091325404
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 353,581 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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When a body of a middle-aged woman is found under a hedge, Inspector Wexford finds he has very little information to pursue the case.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Clever plot, poor execution, 7 Aug 2008
By Ms. L. R. Fisher "lucy_fisher4" (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Sleeping Life (Inspector Wexford) (Paperback)
The central character leaves a provincial town to churn out a series of steadily selling middlebrow novels - now who does that remind me of? This is almost a good book. It has an ingenious mystery at its heart, and Rendell has obviously visited the locations she uses (a rather grim London suburb, a "new-rich" mansion with mirrored walls), a Victorian villa that's seen better days, and taken notes on characters she's observed (a cute Indian girl, a dim gay wine bar owner) but the whole novel seems bolted together from these components. Wexford and his wife Dora and sidekick Burden stubbornly refuse to come to life. And a clunky "relevant" plot strand about women's lib (this is 1979) is dragged in to provide a clue. The whole thing was done much better by Josephine Tey in To Love and Be Wise.
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