Description

A young girl is killed in a cemetery.  And Wexford's doctor has recommended no booze, no abundant food and, most importantly, no police work.  When a young girl's body can be found in a London cemetery and the neighborhood police, underneath the order of Wexford's nephew, are perplexed, Wexford chooses to brave his doctor's wrath and the condescension of the London police by carrying out a little investigating of their own. A powerful tale of mystical identification and early demise, Murder Being Once Done is Rendell at her many sublime.With her Inspector Wexford novels, Ruth Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, has added layers of detail, reality and unease towards the traditional English mystery. For your canny, unflappable cop, and determined is definitely an observer of human character, whose research has shown him that under certain conditions the most unlikely individuals are with the capacity of the most terrible crimes.