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001			701806990
005			20190501232229.0
007			ta
008			120114s2011 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2011026471
020			_a9781451624083 (hbk.)
020			_a1451624085 (hbk.)
020			_z9781451624106 (pbk.)
020			_z1451624107 (pbk.)
020			_a9781451624090 (ebk.)
020			_a1451624093 (ebk.)
020			_z9781442341982 (eaudio)
020			_z144234198X (eaudio)
020			_z9781442343917 (compact disc)
020			_z1442343915 (compact disc)
035			_a(OCoLC)701806990
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043			_ae-uk-en
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082	0	0	_a823/.914 _223
092			_aR2917 _b.va
100	1		_aRendell, Ruth, _d1930-
245	1	4	_aThe vault : _ban Inspector Wexford novel _cRuth Rendell
250			_a1st Scribner hardcover ed
260			_aNew York : _bScribner, _c2011
300			_a276 p. ; _c24 cm
490	1		_aInspector Wexford novel
520			_aFormer Chief Inspector Wexford returns from retirement to solve a most unlikely case: the mystery of who killed the three people whose corpses were last seen at the bottom of a coal hole in A Sight for Sore Eyes (1999). In the decade since Franklin Merton left St. John's Wood in 1998, Orcadia Cottage has changed hands twice by the time Martin Rokeby, who wants to make room for an amphora his wife Anne found in Florence, pulls up a manhole cover in his backyard and shines a light down a dark shaft to reveal not only the three victims from the author's earlier tale but a fourth, much more recently dead than the others but equally beyond identification. Det. Supt. Thomas Ede, of Cricklewood, is getting nowhere with the case, so he invites Reg Wexford, who's retired to Hampstead Heath, to join him as an unpaid consultant. Accompanying Ede and his sergeant, Lucy Blanch, on interviews, he ventures several guesses as to the identities of the dead: Merton's vanished second wife, Harriet? The young man seen driving an Edsel and heard calling himself Keith Hill? His uncle, from whom he may have taken his name and much more? Orcadia neighbor Mildred Jones's cleaner Vladlena, who memorably burned the shirt of her then husband Colin? He watches as he is proved right or wrong, but does not simply watch, for trauma and tragedy are about to visit Wexford's own family in equally unnerving ways
650		0	_aWexford, Inspector (Fictitious character) _vFiction
650		0	_aPolice _zEngland _zSussex _vFiction
651		0	_aSussex (England) _vFiction
800	1		_aRendell, Ruth, _d1930- _tInspector Wexford mystery
961	w	l	_t2
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