Vanity Dies Hard

Vanity Dies Hard  
Author(s) Ruth Rendell
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Crime/Mystery novel
Publisher John Long
Publication date 1966
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN NA
Preceded by To Fear A Painted Devil
Followed by Wolf to the Slaughter

Vanity Dies Hard is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, published in 1966.

Plot summary

Alice Whittaker was 37, rich but dowdy, with no career. Her life a lonely failure, she had got by with the one thing she did have - money. Then handsome Andrew Fielding came into her life, and just as suddenly her beautiful friend, Nesta, vanished from it - leaving a trail of confusing clues.