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Shake hands forever

Ruth Rendell

1997184 pagesabout 3–4 hours
1997
first published
  • 1976Arrow · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9780099129103
  • 1977Bantam Books · 199 pages · ENGISBN 9780553259704
  • 2000Vintage Books · 184 pages · ENGISBN 9780375704956
  • 2010Random House Publishing Group · ENGISBN 9781409068402
  • 2009MacMillanISBN 9780230722637
  • 2000GoldmannISBN 9783442447626
  • 2010Arrow · 288 pagesISBN 9780099534884
  • 1997GoldmannISBN 9783442437177

Classic Crime Fiction from "The most brilliant mystery novelist of our time."Most people would have screamed. Mrs Hathall made no sound. She had seen death many times before, but she had never before seen a death by violence. Heavily, she plodded across the room and descended the stairs to where her son waited. 'There's been an accident,' she said. 'Your wife's dead.'Chief Inspector Wexford could discover no motive, no reason, no suspect - al he had were his own intuitive suspicions. Probably he was reading meaning where there was none; probably Angela Hathall really had picked up a stranger, and that stranger had killed her. But why such doubt? Was Wexford becoming cynical and untrusting - or was this simply one of the most ingenious crimes he had ever tackled?

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