Black residents are highly visible in a small English country town like Kingsmarkham. Yet Dr. and Mrs. Akande's daughter, Melanie, fresh from university but a disappointment to her career-driven parents, has disappeared into thin air. She was last seen at the Employment Centre, where she has just signed on for social assistance, when she inexplicably vanished. Now Inspector Wexford finds himself with an investigation complicated by Melanie's feckless boyfriend, his own eye for a too-pretty employment counsellor, and a bizarrely incompetent burglar...as well as a systematic adulterer, a vengeful wife, a treacly politician... and a perplexing corpse. The case will take Wexford from a sunny, soigne garden party to the greyness of unemployment in a derelict shack and finally onto the streets. Here his endless fascination with the peculiarities of human nature leads him from a volatile mix of motives and suspects straight into an explosion of snobbery, sexism, racism--and brutal murder in blood both hot and cold.
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Hardback Editions
September 1997 : Hardback
| Title: Simisola Author(s): Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0-517-19407-4 / 978-0-517-19407-2 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Value Publishing Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 1996 : Hardback
| Title: Simisola Author(s): Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0-517-17252-6 / 978-0-517-17252-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Value Publishing Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
December 1995 : Hardback
| Title: Simisola Autographed Edition Author(s): Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0-517-70480-3 / 978-0-517-70480-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Crown Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
November 1995 : Hardback
| Title: Simisola Author(s): Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0-7451-7894-4 / 978-0-7451-7894-3 (UK edition) Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 1995 : Hardback
| Title: Simisola Author(s): Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0-385-25498-9 / 978-0-385-25498-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Doubleday of Canada Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
September 1994 : Hardback
| Title: Simisola Author(s): Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0-09-179161-8 / 978-0-09-179161-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Hutchinson Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Paperback Editions
1999 : Paperback
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August 1996 : Paperback
| Title: Simisola Author(s): Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0-440-22202-8 / 978-0-440-22202-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Dell Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
July 1996 : Paperback
| Title: Simisola Author(s): Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0-7451-3719-9 / 978-0-7451-3719-3 (UK edition) Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 1996 : Paperback
| Title: Simisola Author(s): Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0-7838-1588-3 / 978-0-7838-1588-6 (USA edition) Publisher: G K Hall & Co Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 1995 : Paperback
| Title: Simisola (Special Sales) Author(s): Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0-09-916482-5 / 978-0-09-916482-1 (UK edition) Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 1995 : Paperback
| Title: Simisola (Inspector Wexford) Author(s): Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0-09-943731-7 / 978-0-09-943731-4 (UK edition) Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
October 1995 : Paperback
| Title: Simisola (Ome) Author(s): Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0-09-954371-0 / 978-0-09-954371-8 (UK edition) Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
September 1995 : Paperback
| Title: Simisola Author(s): Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0-517-70073-5 / 978-0-517-70073-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Crown Pub Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
May 1995 : Paperback
| Title: Simisola (Inspector Wexford) Author(s): Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0-09-997140-2 / 978-0-09-997140-5 (UK edition) Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
January 1994 : Paperback
| Title: SIMISOLA Author(s): Ruth Rendell Publisher: Arrow Books Availability: Amazon More details... |
1975 : Mass Market Paperback
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Audio Editions
August 1997 : Audio Cassette
| Title: Simisola Author(s): Ruth Rendell ISBN: 1-56740-134-1 / 9781567401349 (USA edition) Publisher: Various Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
December 1995 : Audio Cassette
| Title: Simisola: The New Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery Author(s): Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0-7451-6515-X / 978-0-7451-6515-8 (UK edition) Publisher: Chivers Audio Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
September 1995 : Audio Cassette
| Title: Simisola: An Inspector Wexford Mystery Author(s): Ruth Rendell ISBN: 1-56100-408-1 / 9781561004089 (USA edition) Publisher: various Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
September 1995 : Audio Cassette
| Title: Simisola Author(s): Ruth Rendell ISBN: 1-56100-615-7 / 9781561006151 (USA edition) Publisher: Various Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
November 1994 : Audio CD
| Title: Simisola Author(s): Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0-00-104847-3 / 978-0-00-104847-8 (UK edition) Publisher: HarperCollins Audio Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
March 1997 : Unbound
| Title: Simisola: Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery Author(s): Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0-7704-2714-6 / 978-0-7704-2714-6 (Canada (English speaking) edition) Publisher: Seal Books Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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