From Doon with Death

About this book

Dazzling psychological suspense. Razor-sharp dialogue. Plots that catch and hold like a noose. These are the hallmarks of crime legend Ruth Rendell, “the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world” (Time magazine). From Doon with Death, now in a striking new paperback edition, is her classic debut novel -- and the book that introduced one of the most popular sleuths of the twentieth century.

There is nothing extraordinary about Margaret Parsons, a timid housewife in the quiet town of Kingsmarkham, a woman devoted to her garden, her kitchen, her husband. Except that Margaret Parsons is dead, brutally strangled, her body abandoned in the nearby woods.

1. 9 Shake Hands Forever 1975
2. From Doon with Death 1964 This book
3. Murder Being Once Done 1972

Subjects

• british detective
• detective and mystery stories
• detective story
• england, fiction
• english detective and mystery stories
• fiction
• fiction, crime
• fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
• fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
• inspector wexford (fictional character)
• inspector wexford (fictitious character)
• kingsmarkham (england : imaginary place)
• large type books
• mystery
• police
• thriller
• wexford, inspector (fictitious character), fiction