Inspector Wexford: From Doon with Death : The First Inspector Wexford Mystery (Series #1) (Paperback)

from jayne_charles

Ruth Rendell's first Inspector Wexford novel, if I'm not much mistaken. Spoiled a little for me by the fact that I worked out the twist very early on, and was able to narrow down the suspects. Perhaps I should just be impressed that enough clues were dropped early enough in the story to make this...

from bell7

When proper housewife Margaret Parsons goes missing, her husband turns to his neighbor, Officer Burden, for help. Parsons is certain his wife would not have run out on him, and as an avid reader of crime fiction knows he would be the prime suspect if police find evidence of foul play. When her bo...

from jtck121166

On the death of Ruth Rendell, I sought this out to see what all the fuss had bee about. It's fairly gentle, and Wexford is clearly not yet fully formed. Obviously of its time, it hasn't really stood the test of time, as perhaps best symbolised by the supposedly shocking denouement, which today wo...

from ffortsa

This first Wexford police procedural shows its age; its 1964 moral stereotypes date the story badly. I had the answer way before the plodding detectives figure it out, and then, oh horrors! the truth is revealed. I shouldn't make fun of it. At least Rendell acknowledged such things could happen. ...

from JulesJones

First of the Inspector Wexford novels, first published in 1964, and very much of its time. Inspector Burden's neighbour asks for some unofficial help when he comes home to find his wife missing. Burden's more interested in escaping to his planned trip to the cinema, assuming that the woman has si...