Vanity Dies Hard

Vanity Dies Hard

infobox Book
name = Vanity Dies Hard
title_orig =
translator =


author = Ruth Rendell
cover_artist =
country = United Kingdom
language = English
series =
genre = Crime/Mystery novel
publisher = John Long
release_date = 1966
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages =
isbn = NA
preceded_by = To Fear A Painted Devil
followed_by = Wolf to the Slaughter

"Vanity Dies Hard" is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, published in 1966.

Plot summary

Alice Whittaker was 37, rich but dowdy, with no career. Her life a lonely failure, she had got by with the one thing she did have - money. Then handsome Andrew Fielding came into her life, and just as suddenly her beautiful friend, Nesta, vanished from it - leaving a trail of confusing clues.


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