# The Second Wexford Omnibus

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- Authors: [Ruth Rendell](https://www.bookquiver.com/ruth-rendell)
- Publisher: arrow
- ISBN: 978-00-9966-640-0
- Pages: 528
- Published: 1989-11-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Three compelling Wexford mysteries in one volume: A GUILTY THING SURPRISED Someone must have had good reason to murder Mrs Elizabeth Nightingale on a dark September night. And as Detective Chief Inspector Wexford investigates, he discovers sinister undercurrents and dramatic secrets beneath the placid surface of the Nightingales' lives... NO MORE DYING THEN Seven-and-a-half months after the first disappearance, five-year-old John Lawrence failed to come home. It was only then that the letters began. Evil, mad, taunting letters - letters that made the worst, unspoken imaginings a brutal reality... MURDER BEING ONCE DONE In a gloomy London cemetery, a girl is found murdered: a girl with a name that isn't hers, a girl with no friends, no possessions and no past. It shouldn't have been a case for Wexford - but it is destined to become one of the most macabre and challenging investigations of his career...