Kissing the Gunner's Daughter

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Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
Author	Ruth Rendell
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Inspector Wexford # 15
Genre(s)	Crime, Mystery novel
Publisher	Hutchinson
Publication date	January 1992
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	345 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN	ISBN 0-09-175218-3 (first edition, hardback)
Preceded by	The Copper Peacock
Followed by	The Crocodile Bird

Kissing the Gunner's Daughter is a 1992 novel by the distinguished British mystery writer Ruth Rendell, featuring her popular recurring character Inspector Reg Wexford and his sidekick, Mike Burden.

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The members of a well-to-do family in Kingsmarkham are shot to death during dinner. Only the young daughter survives, badly wounded, and her fragmentary memories are not of much help to Wexford. As she recovers, a romance blooms with a young American tourist.

v • d • e Ruth Rendell — The Inspector Wexford Novels From Doon with Death • Wolf to the Slaughter • A New Lease of Death • The Best Man to Die • 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 • Not in the Flesh