Shake Hands For Ever

by Ruth Rendell | Mystery & Thrillers |
ISBN: 0099129108 Global Overview for this book
Registered by halonhakkaaja of Kuopio, Pohjois-Savo / Norra Savolax Finland on 4/4/2021
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Journal Entry 1 by halonhakkaaja from Kuopio, Pohjois-Savo / Norra Savolax Finland on Sunday, April 4, 2021
Arrow Books, 1994. First published 1975.

Back cover text:
"Most people would have screamed. Mrs Hathall made no sound. She had seen death many times before, but she had never before seen a death by violence. Heavily, she plodded across the room and descended the stairs to where her son waited. ‘There’s been an accident’, she said. ‘Your wife’s dead.’

Chief Inspector Wexford could discover no motive, no reason and no suspect – all he had were his intuitive suspicions. Probably he was reading meaning where there was none; probably Angela Hathall really had picked up a stranger, and that stranger had killed her. But why such doubt? Was Wexford becoming cynical and untrusting – or was this simply one of the most ingenious crimes he had ever tackled?"

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Edit 4.4.2021:
Good story!

Journal Entry 2 by wingem64wing at Tampere, Pirkanmaa / Birkaland Finland on Friday, July 9, 2021
The book arrived yesterday. Thanks, halonhakkaaja!

Journal Entry 3 by wingem64wing at Tampere, Pirkanmaa / Birkaland Finland on Thursday, July 22, 2021
I have read this one years ago but didn't remember anything. I have re-read other Wexford stories this year and this was perhaps the best of them. It was slow-paced but that is Rendell's style, and maybe life was slower in the 70's when people didn't have mobile phones yet. There was a nice twist in the end; otherwise it would have been a bit too predictable.

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