The Speaker of Mandarin
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Author | Ruth Rendell |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Series | Inspector Wexford #12 |
Genre(s) | Crime, Mystery novel |
Publisher | Hutchinson |
Released | 7 February 1983 |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 224 pp (first edition, hardback) |
ISBN | ISBN 0-09-151060-0 (first edition, hardback) |
Preceded by | The Fever Tree |
Followed by | The Killing Doll |
The Speaker of Mandarin is a novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1983. It is the 12th novel in her popular Inspector Wexford series.
[edit] Plot introduction
When Chief Inspector Reg Wexford takes a holiday to China, takes in the Great Wall, the Forbidden Palace, he doesn't expect his trip to revisit him in such a horrific way. Shortly after his return, he finds out that one of his fellow tourists from the trip has been killed in her home. A burglary, it seems like, but Wexford has other ideas.
Ruth Rendell The Inspector Wexford Novels |
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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 |