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Author
Series
Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
A proposed highway through a forest near Kingsmarkham has caused loud cries of protest. One group has taken more drastic measures. It will risk everything-including the lives of five hostages-to halt construction. When Inspector Wexford learns that one of the hostages is his wife Dora, he is caught in a spiral of frustration and fear. The gripping drama of his search takes on added intensity through Davina Porter's crisp narration.
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Author
Series
Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
303 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury-a human hand. The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, wrapped in a purple cotton shroud. The post mortem cannot reveal the precise cause of death. The only clue is a crack in one of the dead man's ribs. Although the police database covers a relatively short period of time, it stores a long list of Missing Persons....
Author
Series
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
[2010], p1994, 2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (5 hr., 28 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Love and death are the only two sensational things that had ever happened to Margaret Parsons. The police knew all about her life and, by the look of it, it was very dull. Margaret Parsons had been a "good" woman--religious, old-fashioned, and respectable. But it was not her life that interested Chief Inspector Wexford, it was her death--passionate, violent, and unfathomable.
Author
Series
Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
While investigating a series of unrelated murders, Inspector Wexford discovers that the victim of a piece of falling concrete, pushed off a highway overpass, is somehow linked to the bludgeoning death of a teenager killed after a late night out with her friends.
Author
Series
Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries volume 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A female Vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham Vicarage. The gossipy cleaning woman who discovers her body, Maxine, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief Inspector Wexford and his wife. When detective inspector Mike Burden calls him, Wexford, intrigued by the unusual circumstances of the murder, leaps at the chance to tag along with the investigators. A single-mother to a teenage girl, Hussein was a woman...
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