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From Doon With Death
by Ruth Rendell
I should start writing down where my book recommendations come from, as this book was on somebody's list, most likely an author I was investigating who suggested it as having been influential in their early reading or writing, and I would like to recall that source!
from Doon with Death was published when I was 10 years old (1964), though in some ways the writing made me feel it had been written a decade earlier. I grew to appreciate Chief Inspector Wexford's and Mike Burden's exchanges as they interacted with each other and with the people they interviewed as part of their investigation. Rendell's descriptions of the town and people conjured up a stultifying locale, one I would not want to visit, let alone live in.
Nonetheless, I was hooked on the story. Perhaps two-thirds of the way through I knew one important clue as to the killer, but it wasn't till the end that I knew exactly who it was. To me that's a good mark of a mystery writer - just enough hints to get the reader thinking and guessing, but not so many hints that the reader solves the mystery before the last page.
from Doon with Death was published when I was 10 years old (1964), though in some ways the writing made me feel it had been written a decade earlier. I grew to appreciate Chief Inspector Wexford's and Mike Burden's exchanges as they interacted with each other and with the people they interviewed as part of their investigation. Rendell's descriptions of the town and people conjured up a stultifying locale, one I would not want to visit, let alone live in.
Nonetheless, I was hooked on the story. Perhaps two-thirds of the way through I knew one important clue as to the killer, but it wasn't till the end that I knew exactly who it was. To me that's a good mark of a mystery writer - just enough hints to get the reader thinking and guessing, but not so many hints that the reader solves the mystery before the last page.