wyszukanych pozycji: 37
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One Across, Two Down: a wonderfully creepy suburban thriller from the award-winning Queen of Crime, Ruth Rendell
ISBN: 9780099312604 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. There are only two things that interest Stanley: the crosswords and getting his hands on his mother's money, which he has dreamed about for 20 years. He finally realises that he must construct a puzzle of his own in order to give death a helping hand.
There are only two things that interest Stanley: the crosswords and getting his hands on his mother's money, which he has dreamed about for 20 years. ...
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54,02 zł |
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Dark Corners
ISBN: 9781784752347 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When Carl sells a box of slimming pills to his close friend Stacey, inadvertently causing her death, he sets in train a sequence of catastrophic events which begin with subterfuge, extend to lies, and culminate in murder.
When Carl sells a box of slimming pills to his close friend Stacey, inadvertently causing her death, he sets in train a sequence of catastrophic event...
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48,62 zł |
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The Water's Lovely: A Suspense Thriller
ISBN: 9780307388018 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Ismay and Heather's stepfather drowned in the bathtub nine years ago, the police concluded that it was an accident. But Ismay has always silently suspected that Heather might have been involved. When Heather becomes involved with a man, Ismay's long-repressed memories can no longer be ignored.
When Ismay and Heather's stepfather drowned in the bathtub nine years ago, the police concluded that it was an accident. But Ismay has always silently...
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91,71 zł |
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A Spot of Folly: Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem
ISBN: 9781504054829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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79,16 zł |
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Dark Corners
ISBN: 9781501119439 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A spectacularly creepy and macabre tale" (Entertainment Weekly) of blackmail, murders both accidental and opportunistic, and of one life's fateful unraveling--from Ruth Rendell, "one of the most remarkable novelists of her generation" (People), writing at her most mesmerizing. Rendell completed Dark Corners shortly before her death in 2015. When his father dies, Carl Martin inherits a house in an increasingly rich and trendy London neighborhood. Cash poor, Carl rents the upstairs room and kitchen to the first person he interviews, Dermot McKinnon. That is mistake...
"A spectacularly creepy and macabre tale" (Entertainment Weekly) of blackmail, murders both accidental and opportunistic, and of one life's fat...
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70,86 zł |
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From Doon With Death: A Wexford Case - 50th Anniversary Edition
ISBN: 9780099588542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 50th anniversary edition of the first Inspector Wexford novel, with an introduction by Ian Rankin and a new afterword by Ruth Rendell. An ordinary life. An extraordinary death.
The trampled grass led to the body of Margaret Parsons. With no useful clues and a victim known only for her mundane life, Chief Inspector Wexford is baffled until he discovers Margaret's dark secret -- a collection of rare books, each inscribed from a secret lover and signed only as 'Doon'. Who is Doon? And could the answer hold the key to Wexford solving his first case? 50th anniversary edition of the first Inspector Wexford novel, with an introduction by Ian Rankin and a new afterword by Ruth Rendell. A...
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51,10 zł |
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The Best Man To Die: an unmissable and unputdownable Wexford mystery from the award-winning Queen of Crime, Ruth Rendell
ISBN: 9780099534839 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Jack was getting married and his best friend, Charlie was to be his best man. Jack felt as though his life was just beginning, but for Charlie, life was about to end.
Jack was getting married and his best friend, Charlie was to be his best man. Jack felt as though his life was just beginning, but for Charlie, life w...
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54,02 zł |
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The Babes in the Wood
ISBN: 9781400034192 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and his own home and no end to the rain in sight, Chief Inspector Wexford already has his hands full when he learns that two local teenagers have gone missing along with their sitter, Joanna Troy. Their hysterical mother is convinced that all three have drowned, and as the hours stretch into days Wexford suspects a case of kidnapping, perhaps connected with an unusual sect called the Church of the Good Gospel. But when the sitter's smashed-up car is found at the bottom of a local quarry-occupied by a battered corpse-the investigation takes...
With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and his own home and no end to the rain in sight, Chief Inspector Wexford already has his hands ...
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62,32 zł |
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A Sleeping Life
ISBN: 9780375704932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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,... Rhoda Comfrey's death seemed unremarkable; the real mystery was her life.
In A Sleeping Life, master mystery writer Ruth Rendell unveils an... |
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70,86 zł |
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A Judgement in Stone (Special Edition)
ISBN: 9780593311929 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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66,70 zł |
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A Spot of Folly : Ten Tales of Murder and Mayhem
ISBN: 9781788160339 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Previously uncollected and unpublished: new short stories from a master of psychological suspense.
Previously uncollected and unpublished: new short stories from a master of psychological suspense.
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77,29 zł |
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No Man's Nightingale
ISBN: 9781476747132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELL'S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS From "one of the most remarkable novelists of her generation" (People) a "refined, probing, and intelligent" (USA TODAY) mystery in the masterful Inspector Wexford series...more enthralling than ever after fifty years. A female vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham vicarage. A single mother to a teenage girl, Hussein was working in a male-dominated profession. Moreover, she was of mixed race and wanted to modernize the church. Could racism or sexism have played a factor in...
INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELL'S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS From "one of the most remarkable novelists of her generation" (People) a ...
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70,86 zł |
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Put On By Cunning: a captivating and compelling Wexford mystery from the award-winning Queen of Crime, Ruth Rendell
ISBN: 9780099534938 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Sir Manuel Camargue's death was ruled Misadventure, yet in spite of himself, Chief Inspector Wexford has niggling doubts.
Sir Manuel Camargue, one of the greatest flautists of his time, was dead. An old man, ankle-deep in snow, he lost his foothold in the dark, slipping into water to be trapped under a lid of ice. Only a glove remained to point where he lay, one of its fingers pointing up 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... Sir Manuel Camargue's death was ruled Misadventure, yet in spite of himself, Chief Inspector Wexford has niggling doubts.
Sir Manuel Camargue, one... |
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54,02 zł |
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Kissing The Gunner's Daughter: an engrossing and absorbing Wexford mystery from the award-winning queen of crime, Ruth Rendell
ISBN: 9780099249115 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A bank job goes wrong and a Kingsmarkham detective sergeant is killed. Months later, the Flory family are slaughtered at home by an unknown assassin. The cases seem unrelated. But Chief Inspector Wexford is not so sure. By the author of The Copper Peacock and The Bridesmaid.
A bank job goes wrong and a Kingsmarkham detective sergeant is killed. Months later, the Flory family are slaughtered at home by an unknown assassin. ...
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51,10 zł |
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Shake Hands Forever
ISBN: 9780375704956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The bed was neatly made, and the woman on top neatly strangled.
According to all accounts, Angela Hathall was deeply in love with her husband and far too paranoid to invite an unknown person into their home. So who managed to gain entry and strangle her without a struggle? That is the problem facing Inspector Wexford in Shake Hands Forever. Perhaps it was the mystery woman who left her fingerprints on the Hathall's bathtub? Perhaps it was Angela's husband who lied about a stolen library book? And why was the Hathall home, usually so unkempt, exqisitely clean the day of Angela's... The bed was neatly made, and the woman on top neatly strangled.
According to all accounts, Angela Hathall was deeply in love with her husband and ... |
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70,86 zł |
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End in Tears
ISBN: 9780307277237 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In End in Tears, Edgar Award winning author Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford has his work cut out for him: When Mavis Ambrose is killed by a falling chunk of concrete, the police have no reason to suspect mischief. However, the bludgeoning of the young and gorgeous Amber Marshalson that follows is clearly murder. In the midst of the hottest summer on record, Inspector Wexford is called in to investigate. He discovers the two cases may be linked, and that Amber was at the scene of Mavis s death. When a third body is found, the case takes a disturbing and unexpected turn. The deeper... In End in Tears, Edgar Award winning author Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford has his work cut out for him: When Mavis Ambrose is killed by a... |
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75,03 zł |
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A Spot of Folly: Ten Tales of Murder and Mayhem
ISBN: 9781788160155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness. Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are ten (and a quarter) of her most chillingly compelling short stories, collected here together for the first time. In these tales, a businessman boasts about cheating on his wife, only to find the tables turned. A beautiful country rectory reverberates to the echo of a historical murder. A compulsive liar acts on impulse, only to be lead inexorably to disaster. And a wealthy man finds there is more to his wife's kidnapping than meets the eye. ...
New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness. Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are ten...
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51,10 zł |
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The Girl Next Door: a mesmerising mystery of murder and memory from the award-winning queen of crime, Ruth Rendell
ISBN: 9780099598756 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The dazzling new novel from Ruth Rendell. When the bones of two severed hands are discovered in a box, an investigation into a long buried crime of passion begins. And a group of friends, who played together as children, begin to question their past. 'For Woody, anger was cold. Cold and slow. But once it had started it mounted gradually and he could think of nothing else. He knew he couldn't stay alive while those two were alive. Instead of sleeping, he lay awake in the dark and saw those hands. Anita's narrow white hand with the long nails painted pastel pink, the man's brown hand equally...
The dazzling new novel from Ruth Rendell. When the bones of two severed hands are discovered in a box, an investigation into a long buried crime of pa...
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54,02 zł |
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Wolf To The Slaughter: a hugely absorbing and compelling Wexford mystery from the award-winning Queen of Crime, Ruth Rendell
ISBN: 9780099534822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Ruth Rendell has won many awards, including the Crime Writers' Gold Dagger Award. In this novel Anita Margolis has vanished. There was no body, no crime, nothing more concrete than an anonymous letter.
Ruth Rendell has won many awards, including the Crime Writers' Gold Dagger Award. In this novel Anita Margolis has vanished. There was no body, no cri...
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45,99 zł |
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Not in the Flesh
ISBN: 9780307388780 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. After a truffle-hunting dog unearths a human hand instead of a precious fungus, Chief Inspector Wexford and his team proceed to interrogate everyone who lives nearby to see if they can turn up a match for the errant appendage.
After a truffle-hunting dog unearths a human hand instead of a precious fungus, Chief Inspector Wexford and his team proceed to interrogate everyone w...
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cena:
75,03 zł |