Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
- Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
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name = Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
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author = Ruth Rendell
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
series = Inspector Wexford # 15
genre = Crime, Mystery novel
publisher = Hutchinson
release_date = January 1992
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 345 pp (first edition, hardback)
isbn = ISBN 0-09-175218-3 (first edition, hardback)
preceded_by = The Copper Peacock
followed_by = The Crocodile Bird
Kissing the Gunner's Daughter is a 1992 novel by the distinguished British mystery writer Ruth Rendell, featuring her popular recurring character Inspector Reg Wexford and his sidekick, Mike Burden.
Plot introduction
The members of a well-to-do family in Kingsmarkham are shot to death during dinner. Only the young daughter survives, badly wounded, and her fragmentary memories are not of much help to Wexford. As she recovers, a romance blooms with a young American tourist.
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