A New Lease of Death

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A New Lease of Death
Author Ruth Rendell
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Series Inspector Wexford #3
Genre(s) Crime / Mystery
Publisher Doubleday
Released 1967
Media Type Print (Hardcover)
ISBN NA
Preceded by Wolf to the Slaughter
Followed by The Secret House of Death

A New Lease of Death is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1967. it is the 3rd entry in her popular Inspector Wexford series. (The novel was titled "The Sins of the Fathers" in the USA.)

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Chief Inspector Wexford had every reason to remember the Painter case - it was the first murder he'd ever handled on his own. There had been no doubts about the case, until now. Someone wants the case reopened, and they want Wexford proved wrong.


Ruth Rendell
The Inspector Wexford Novels
From Doon With Death | Wolf to the Slaughter | The Best Man to Die | A New Lease of Death | A Guilty Thing Surprised | No More Dying Then | Murder Being Once Done | Some Lie and Some Die | Shake Hands Forever | A Sleeping Life | Put on by Cunning | The Speaker of Mandarin | An Unkindness of Ravens | The Veiled One | Kissing the Gunner's Daughter | Simisola | Road Rage | Harm Done | The Babes in the Wood | End in Tears


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