Death Notes
An Inspector Wexford Mystery
Random House Publishing Group · Print & ebook · August 12, 1986
Sir Manuel Camargue, yesterday one of the most celebrated musicians of his time, today floats face down in the lake near his sprawling English country house.
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- Who it’s for
- A classic Wexford outing: calm on the surface, neatly tense underneath.
- Genres
- Police Procedurals, British Mystery, Suspense
- Published
- Random House Publishing Group, August 12, 1986
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Sir Manuel Camargue, yesterday one of the most celebrated musicians of his time, today floats face down in the lake near his sprawling English country house. The consensus is accidental death -- but Inspector Wexford knows the stench of murder most foul when he smells it. Particularly in the company of two suspects -- one, the victim's fiancee, who is too young to be true, the other his daughter who may be no kin and even less kind . . .
Quietly Tense
A classic Wexford outing: calm on the surface, neatly tense underneath.
Come here for
- Inspector Wexford’s steady, human-scale sleuthing
- British-mystery comforts with a cooler edge
Expect
- Cozy-mystery framing
- Historical-mystery texture
Where it sits
| Police Procedurals | 58% |
|---|---|
| British Mystery | 42% |
| Suspense | 25% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Mystery
- British Mystery
- Suspense
- Authors
- Ruth Rendell, Davina Porter, Recorded Books
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- August 12, 1986
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Mystery