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From Doon With Death: A Wexford Case - 50th Anniversary Edition (Wexford, 1)

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And so, for a non quaint, psychological mystery that relies on neither sex nor violence, this is a very good read. Which brings us back to Margaret, our apparently boring, somewhat religious, utterly unremarkable victim.

That presents no memorable personality and in this case, I was glad Reginald was not in the story until later; that Mike is an equal protagonist. It's been almost twenty years since I read it, and there has always been a niggling in the back of my mind to get back to her eventually. Wexford has only a few clues: a spent match on the ground, and inscriptions in some of Margaret's books that are signed "Doon. Why in the world would any one go to the bother of killing and dumping a boring, plain woman like Margaret (Godfrey) Parsons? I hear her solo stories and other Reginald Wexford / Mike Burden cases are better; a good thing, because I own nearly them all, courtesy of bargain bins!Means of Evil → When Wexford and Burden attend wholefood fanatic Axel Kingman's wedding, they never suspect that they will shortly be investigating the new bride's death.

What makes me sad is that Terrence Hardiman, who did such an amazing job narrating this, did not record the later stories when they were turned into audiobooks as I had loved his voicing of Wexford and Rendell’s prose.

Also, as a side note, don't forget that this book was written in 1964 and thus attitudes are a bit dated.

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