Ruth Rendell — Shake Hands for Ever

London, Hutchinson, 1975. First edition. Cloth. A bright first edition of Rendell"s acclaimed ninth Wexford mystery, complete with the scarce Edmund Crispin wraparound band and unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original dark cloth binding.  First edition. The ninth novel in Rendell"s Inspector Wexford series. Complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper and the scarce Sunday Times wraparound band, bearing Edmund Crispin"s endorsement: "A really major detective-story writer." A suspensful detective novel in which Inspector Wexford investigates the apparently motiveless strangling of Angela Hathall. Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) was an acclaimed English crime novelist, known both for her Inspector Wexford series and for the darker psychological thrillers published under her own name and the pseudonym Barbara Vine. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Very light shelf wear to extremities. Dust wrapper, very smart. Slight edge wear to extremities, with very small chip to upper corner of rear wrap. One or two light creases and very small closed tears to rear of wrap around band. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.