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Kissing The Gunner's Daughter: an engrossing and absorbing Wexford mystery from the award-winning queen of crime, Ruth Rendell (Inspector Wexford series Book 15) eBook : Rendell, Ruth: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
- Ruth Rendell
A dinner-hour call for help brings Wexford and his assistants to Tancred House, where, in a chilling scene of carnage, he finds popular anthropologist and novelist Davina Flory, her husband, daughter and teenage granddaughter bleeding profusely from bullet wounds. Only young Daisy, who made the call, is alive.
But only the seventeen-year-old daughter of one of the victims survives to provide the most confusing of clues. Although Wexford is very taken with the crime's only witness, Daisy Hoy, his feelings do not prevent his deductive powers from functioning with customary intuitive precision.
7 mag 2010 · but “Kissing the Gunner’s Daughter” is not among her very best. Because it is more ‘who-done-it’ than is typical of her books it is less pleasurable to reread - unlike books like (chosen at random) “Wolf to the Slaughter” or “A Sight for Sore Eyes” or “A Fatal Inversion,” books so wonderfully written that despite knowing’how it comes out’ the reader can enjoy them as ...
Kissing the Gunner's Daughter. Ruth Rendell. Mysterious Press, 1993 - Fiction - 378 pages. Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford remains cool in the face of massive media ...
Kissing the Gunner's Daughter. Ruth Rendell. Mysterious Press, $19.95 (378pp) ISBN 978-0-89296-390-4. Four years after The Veiled One , Rendell's Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford returns in a ...
"Kissing the Gunner's Daughter" was naval slang for corporal punishment administered to a young seaman over a gun as imagined in this artist's impression. See also the same scene from other angles . In the eighteenth century the Royal Navy encouraged boys as young as nine to enlist as 'servants' (the lower age limit was raised to 13 in 1794).
