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An edition of Not in the flesh: A Wexford Novel (2007)

Not in the flesh

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Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury - a human hand. The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, wrapped in a purple cotton sheet. The post mortem cannot reveal the precise cause of death. The only clue is a crack in one of the dead man's ribs. Although it covers a relatively short period of time, the police computer stores a long list of missing persons. Men, women and children disappear at an alarming rate, something like 500 every day nationwide. So Wexford knows he is going to have a job on his hands to identify the corpse. And then, only about twenty yards away from the woodland burial site, in the cellar of a disused cottage, another body is found. The detection skills of Wexford, Burden and the other investigating officers of the Kingsmarkham Police Force are tested to the utmost to discover whether the murders are connected and to track down whoever is responsible.

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Publisher
Charnwood
Language
English
Pages
358

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Not in the flesh: a Wexford novel
2009, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
in English - 1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed.
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Not in the Flesh: A Wexford Novel
June 10, 2008, RH Audio
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Not in the Flesh
2008, Crown Publishing Group
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Not in the flesh: a Wexford novel
2008, Random House Large Print
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Not in the Flesh
2008, Penguin Random House
in English
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Not in the flesh: a Wexford novel
2008, Crown Publishers
in English - 1st U.S. ed.
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Not in the flesh
2008, Charnwood
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Not in the Flesh: A Wexford Novel
June 10, 2008, Crown, Crown Publishers
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De fruitplukker
2007, Bruna
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Not in the flesh
2007, Crown Publishers
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Not in the flesh
2007, Crown Publishers
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Not in the flesh
2007, Hutchinson
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Not In The Flesh: the Past Is A Shallow Grave
2007, Hutchinson
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Not in the flesh
2007, Crown Publishers
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Not in the flesh
2007, Hutchinson
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Not in the flesh
2007, Hutchinson
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Edition Notes

Originally published: London: Hutchinson, 2007.

Published in
Leicester
Series
Chief Inspector Wexford -- 22, Chief Inspector Wexford -- 22.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.914

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Pagination
358 pages (large print)
Number of pages
358

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32129675M
Internet Archive
notinflesh0000rend_i0t5
ISBN 10
1847821588
ISBN 13
9781847821584
OCLC/WorldCat
191244337

Work Description

A new Chief Inspector Wexford mystery from the author who Time magazine has called "the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world." When the truffle-hunting dog starts to dig furiously, his master's first reaction is delight at the size of the clump the dog has unearthed: at the going rate, this one truffle might be worth several hundred pounds. Then the dirt falls away to reveal not a precious mushroom but the bones and tendons of what is clearly a human hand.In Not in the Flesh, Chief Inspector Wexford tries to piece together events that took place eleven years earlier, a time when someone was secretly interred in a secluded patch of English countryside. Now Wexford and his team will need to interrogate everyone who lives nearby to see if they can turn up a match for the dead man among the eighty-five people in this part of England who have disappeared over the past decade. Then, when a second body is discovered nearby, Wexford experiences a feeling that's become a rarity for the veteran policeman: surprise.As Wexford painstakingly moves to resolve these multiple mysteries, long-buried secrets are brought to daylight, and Ruth Rendell once again proves why she has been hailed as our greatest living mystery writer.From the Hardcover edition.

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