Live Flesh (Signed 1st)

Ruth Rendell

ISBN 10: 0091636809 / ISBN 13: 9780091636807

Edité par Hutchinson, London, 1986

A propos de cet article

Ruth Barbara Rendell (1930 - 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. She is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford in a series of two dozen books. Her Wexford stories were dramatized in a long-running BBC series. Like her friend PD James, Ms Rendell was widely credited with pushing mystery into new themes and ways of storytelling. It was often said of her, as it was of Ms James, that her work transcended the genre, and that by any measure she was an enormously talented writer She wrote more than 60 books, and her works have been translated into more than 20 languages and have had worldwide sales estimated as high as 60 million She won three prestigious Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, which named her to its list of grandmasters. She also won four Gold Daggers and a Diamond Dagger from England's Crime Writers' Association This title is the 11th book in the Wexford series, and one of the less common, At the time of this listing, it appears that this is the only author signed first UK edition available on the internet (ie Amazon, Abebooks, Biblio, eBay, etc) It is in excellent condition with the signature on the title page, and visible marks or damage. There is a previous bookseller sticker on the front, but it is affixed to the plastic jacket protective cover and not to the jacket directly. Signed by Rendell on the title page. . BI19.

N° de réf. du vendeur B1147

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Live Flesh (Signed 1st)
• Éditeur: Hutchinson, London
• Date de parution: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0091636809
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780091636807
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Signé: Signed
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Signed/Inscribed
  • Mystery
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

All his life Victor had had a phobia. In prison he reflected on the grotesque way it had begun, the panics and the violent anger. He asked himself why the child of happily married, middle class parents should have needed to make motiveless attacks on women.

Biographie de l'auteur

Ruth Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, and will be remembered as a legend in her own lifetime. Her groundbreaking debut novel, From Doon With Death, was first published in 1964 and introduced the reader to her enduring and popular detective, Inspector Reginald Wexford, who went on to feature in twenty-four of her subsequent novels.

With worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, Rendell was a regular Sunday Times bestseller. Her sixty bestselling novels include police procedurals, some of which have been successfully adapted for TV, stand-alone psychological mysteries, and a third strand of crime novels under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. Very much abreast of her times, the Wexford books in particular often engaged with social or political issues close to her heart.

Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for 1976’s best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.

Ruth Rendell died in May 2015. Her final novel, Dark Corners, is scheduled for publication in October 2015