Description
ISBN: 0394572068
Title: The Veiled One
Author: Rendell, Ruth
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books, New York
Publication Date: 1988
Edition: First American Edition
Book Condition: VG
D-j Condition: VG
Comments: Top of front board lightly soiled. D-j cover has a slight scratch.
Synopsis: Concealed by a shroud of dirty brown velvet, looking like a heap of rags, the woman’s body lay between a silver Escort and a dark-blue Lancia. In the desolate shopping centre car park, Wexford has been too preoccupied to notice anything out of the ordinary – only the teenage girl in the red car, driving past him rather too fast. It was Burden who called him at home with the grim news later that evening: the woman had been attacked from behind, perhaps with a thin length of wire. But before Wexford can delve any deeper into this curious homicide, he, too, faces death …
