The Best Man To Die - Softcover

Rendell, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099259109 ISBN 13: 9780099259107

Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

A Detective Chief Inspector Wexford novel. The fatal car accident involving the stockbroker Fanshawe couldn't possibly be connected with the murder of a cocky little lorry driver. But was it a coincidence that the latter died the day after Mrs Fanshawe regained consciousness?

About this title

About the Author

Ruth Rendell is crime fiction at its very best. The author of over 50 novels, she has won many significant crime fiction awards. Her first novel, From Doon With Death, appeared in 1964, and since then her reputation and readership have grown steadily with each new book. She has received major awards for her work; three Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America; the Crime Writers' Gold Dagger Award for 1976's best crime novel, A Demon in My View; the Arts Council National Book Award for Genre Fiction in 1981 for The Lake of Darkness; the Crime Writer's Gold Dagger Award for 1986's best crime novel for Live Flesh; in 1987 the Crime Writer's Gold Dagger Award for A Fatal Inversion and in 1991 the same award for King Solomon's Carpet, both written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine; the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990; and in 1991 the Crime Writer's Cartier Diamond Award for outstanding contribution to the genre. Her books are translated into 21 languages. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.

From the Back Cover

Jack Pertwee was getting married in the morning.

Charlie Hatton drove his lorry eleven hours down from Leeds just to be there. Charlie was Jack's best friend and he would be his best man. When the two finally parted at the Kingsbrook bridge, Jack felt as though his life was just beginning. But for Charlie Hatton life was about to end.

Detective Chief Inspector Wexford wondered why the fatal Fanshawe car accident kept upsetting his concentration on the Hatton murder. There couldn't be a connection. Fanshawe had been a wealthy stockbroker; Charlie Hatton had been a cocky little lorry driver with some illegal dealing.

But was it just a coincidence that Hatton had been killed on the day following that of Mrs Fanshawe's regaining consciousness?

From the Inside Flap

'Ruth Rendell's mesmerising capacity to shock, chill and disturb is unmatched' The Times

Edition details

• Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099259109
• ISBN 13: 9780099259107
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 192