No More Dying Then

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Title No More Dying Then
Author Ruth Rendell
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Series Inspector Wexford #6
Genre(s) Crime, Mystery novel
Publisher Hutchinson
Released 4 October 1971
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN ISBN 0-09-907400-1 (paperback)
Preceded by One Across, Two Down
Followed by Murder Being Once Done

No More Dying Then is a novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell. It was first published in 1971, and is the 6th entry in her popular Inspector Wexford series. The Independent Mystery Booksellers Association listed the book as one of its 100 Favourite Crime Novels of the Century.

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On a stormy February afternoon, little Stella Rivers disappears and is never seen again. Then, on a warm October day, five-year-old John Lawrence fails to come home, and evil, mad, taunting letters begin, which make the worst, unspoken imaginings a brutal reality.