No More Dying Then
The sixth Wexford novel published by Hutchinson in 1971
Burden was rather prudish and prim. Then, people began to tell me that he was too prudish for a detective inspector. So I killed off his wife and let him have an affair with an actress. But strangely enough, it didn’t make him less prim and prudish.
On a stormy February afternoon, little Stella Rivers disappears without a trace. There are no clues or demands and nowhere for Wexford and his team to look. All that remains is the cold fear and awful dread that touches everyone in Kingsmarkham.
Just months later, another child vanishes, and Wexford and Burden launch into another investigation and, all too quickly, they discover chilling similarities to the Stella Rivers case.
Notes
Titled after a quote in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 146.
Adapted for TV in 1989.
Contemporary Reads 2
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P.D. James - Shroud for a Nightingale
Elizabeth Taylor - Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
Footnotes
The People’s Detective, ITV 2010. ↩︎
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