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Shake Hands For Ever by Ruth Rendell
4.0
Wexford’s White Whale
Review of the Arrow Books/Cornerstone Digital Kindle eBook edition (2010) of the original Hutchinson hardcover (1975)
I was so swept up in my current binge read / re-read of Ruth Rendell (aka [a:Barbara Vine|47687|Barbara Vine|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1263385982p2/47687.jpg]) that I picked up an eBook edition of Wexford #9, having forgotten that I had already re-read & reviewed it back in 2022 as Wexford's Chimera when I discovered an old hoard of paperbacks. That review and rating stands after this additional re-read.
I will add that there is an extra level of enjoyment in a Rendell eBook binge as it allows for an easy markup of Notes and Highlights, allowing you to research Rendell's various literary quotes and allusions.
Cover image for the Arrow Books paperback reprint edition from 1985. Image sourced from Goodreads.
Trivia and Links
Shake Hands For Ever was adapted for television as part of the Ruth Rendell / Inspector Wexford Mysteries TV series (1987-2000) as Season 2 Episodes 4 to 6 in 1988 with actor George Baker as Inspector Wexford. You can watch the entire 3 episodes on YouTube here.
Review of the Arrow Books/Cornerstone Digital Kindle eBook edition (2010) of the original Hutchinson hardcover (1975)
‘Howard, you are my only ally.’ ‘Well, you know what Chesterton said about that.’ Wexford put on his dressing gown and went downstairs to find what Chesterton had said. ‘There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.’ - Inspector Wexford is bucked up by the support of his nephew Howard Fortune.
I was so swept up in my current binge read / re-read of Ruth Rendell (aka [a:Barbara Vine|47687|Barbara Vine|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1263385982p2/47687.jpg]) that I picked up an eBook edition of Wexford #9, having forgotten that I had already re-read & reviewed it back in 2022 as Wexford's Chimera when I discovered an old hoard of paperbacks. That review and rating stands after this additional re-read.
I will add that there is an extra level of enjoyment in a Rendell eBook binge as it allows for an easy markup of Notes and Highlights, allowing you to research Rendell's various literary quotes and allusions.
Cover image for the Arrow Books paperback reprint edition from 1985. Image sourced from Goodreads.
Trivia and Links
Shake Hands For Ever was adapted for television as part of the Ruth Rendell / Inspector Wexford Mysteries TV series (1987-2000) as Season 2 Episodes 4 to 6 in 1988 with actor George Baker as Inspector Wexford. You can watch the entire 3 episodes on YouTube here.