Come back, Inspector Wexford
Douglas Johnson, 7 March 1985
The Killing Doll
by Ruth Rendell.
Hutchinson/Arrow, 237 pp., £7.95, March 1984,0 09 155480 2 Show More
by Ruth Rendell.
Hutchinson/Arrow, 237 pp., £7.95, March 1984,
“... the patient intelligence that compensates for growing old. As Hercule Poirot had waxed moustaches, Lord Peter Wimsey collected first editions and Nero Wolfe wore yellow pyjamas, so Wexford is the sort of man who is always badly dressed and is never certain of having a clean handkerchief. Like Appleby, he has a tendency to quote from literature, but the ... ”