An Inspector Wexford mystery. He thought he was merely doing a neighbourly good deed when he agreed to talk to Joy Williams about her missing husband, and certainly didn't expect to be investigating a most unusual homicide.

After ten years in prison for shooting - and permanently crippling - a young policeman, Victor Jenner is released to make a new life for himself. However, he was never convicted for all those rapes he committed. Then Victor meets David, the policeman he shot, and David's girlfriend, Clare. And suddenly Victor's new life is not new anymore.

Includes three mysteries - From Doon With Death; A New Lease of Death; and, The Best Man to Die.

A Reg Wexford mystery. In a desolate subterranean car park, Detective Chief Inspector Wexford has been too preoccupied to notice anything out of the ordinary - just a teenage girl in a red car, driving rather too fast. Only later does he learn of the car park victim, murdered with a length of wire.

An omnibus edition of three of Ruth Rendell's Wexford mysteries. They feature the discovery of sinister undercurrents when an apparently respectable woman is murdered, evil letters that make unspoken imaginings a brutal reality, and the killing of a girl in a gloomy London cemetery.

The dark, good-looking Guy is from a council flat. Leonora has a mews house in Holland Park, and her mother doesn't care for Guy - or the way he makes his money. His obsession with Leonora increases, even after they have grown apart, until eventually it creates in him a murderous madness.

Presents a collection of short stories that also includes two unpublished novellas. The first novella is a story about a man whose life, in a sense, is a book, one that marks a very significant moment in his relationship with his mother. The second novella explores a strange, erotic universe in a dream-like corner of rural England.

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. Chief Inspector Wexford has ne

Features three stories: "Means of Evil", "The Fallen Curtain" and "The Fever Tree".

Presents a collection of short stories from Ruth Rendell. This work comprises of stories such as: "The new Girl Friend", "The Coppper Peacock", "Blood Lines", and "Piranha To Scurfy".