Shake Hands Forever

Shake Hands Forever

infobox Book
name = Shake Hands Forever
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author = Ruth Rendell
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
series = Inspector Wexford #9
genre = Crime, Mystery novel
publisher = Hutchinson
release_date = 25 April 1975
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 215 pp (first edition, hardback)
isbn = ISBN 0-09-122760-7 (first edition, hardback)
preceded_by = The Face of Trespass
followed_by = A Demon in my View

"Shake Hands Forever" is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell. It is the 9th entry in her popular Inspector Wexford series.

Plot summary

Most people would have screamed. Mrs Hathall made no sound. She had seen death many times before, but she had never before seen a death by violence. Heavily, she plodded across the room and descended the stairs to where her son waited. 'There's been an accident,' she said. 'Your wife's dead.'Chief Inspector Wexford could discover no motive, no reason, no suspect - all he had were his own intuitive suspicions. Probably he was reading meaning where there was none; probably Angela Hathall really had picked up a stranger, and that stranger had killed her. But why such doubt? Was Wexford becoming cynical and untrusting - or was this simply one of the most ingenious crimes he had ever tackled?


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