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The bed was neatly made, and the woman on top neatly strangled. According to all accounts, Angela Hathall was deeply in love with her husband and far too paranoid to invite an unknown person into their home. So who managed to gain entry and strangle her without a struggle? That is the problem facing Inspector Wexford: Perhaps it was the mystery woman who left her fingerprints on the Hathall's bathtub? Perhaps it was Angela's husband who lied about a stolen library book? And why was the Hathall home, usually so unkempt, exquisitely clean the day of Angela's death? Then a neighbor??friendly, knowing, disarmingly beautiful??offers Wexford her assistance. And what begins as a rather tricky case turns into an obsession that threatens to destroy the Inspector's career??as well as his marri… (más)
Después de mucho insistir, Robert Hathall consigue que su madre viaje hasta Kingsmarkham para pasar el fin de semana en su casa recién adquirida. La huraña mujer no sólo odia tenerse que desplazar, sino que se lleva fatal con Ángela, la nueva esposa de su hijo, a la que considera una holgazana. Por eso, cuando la anciana entra en la vivienda y la encuentra reluciente no da crédito a sus ojos. Pero una sorpresa mucho mayor le aguarda en la habitación del piso de arriba: sobre la cama yace el cuerpo sin vida de su nuera. Sin testigos ni huellas dactilares que puedan dar una pista sobre el asesino, el detective Wexford se enfrenta a un caso de difícil solución, aunque, fiel a sus corazonadas, está seguro de poder descubrir al culpable.
El cadáver de una mujer es encontrado en su habitación. Ha sido asesinada por estrangulación y la única pista dejada por el homicida es la huella de una mano con una extraña marca. Todas las sospechas apuntan al marido de la víctima. Sin embargo, la investigación emprendida por Wexford pondrá al descubierto una intriga tan diabólica como sorprendente.
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For my aunts, Jenny Waldorf, Laura Winfield, Margot Richards and Phyllis Ridgway, with my love
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The woman standing under the departures board at Victoria station had a flat rectangular body and an iron-hard rectangular face.
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Why is it that as you get older you tend to wake up at five and are unable to get off to sleep again? Something to do with the blood sugar level being low? Or the coming of dawn exerting an atavistic pull? (chapter 12)
[part of the description of the Marcus Flower company's décor] On the walls were abstract paintings of the splashed ketchup and copulating spiders genre, and on low tables magazine pornography so soft as to be gently blancmange-like in texture and kind. (chapter 8)
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Seeing Burden's look of incredulity, he added, 'And now I suppose I shall have to tell the story all over again.'
The bed was neatly made, and the woman on top neatly strangled. According to all accounts, Angela Hathall was deeply in love with her husband and far too paranoid to invite an unknown person into their home. So who managed to gain entry and strangle her without a struggle? That is the problem facing Inspector Wexford: Perhaps it was the mystery woman who left her fingerprints on the Hathall's bathtub? Perhaps it was Angela's husband who lied about a stolen library book? And why was the Hathall home, usually so unkempt, exquisitely clean the day of Angela's death? Then a neighbor??friendly, knowing, disarmingly beautiful??offers Wexford her assistance. And what begins as a rather tricky case turns into an obsession that threatens to destroy the Inspector's career??as well as his marri
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