The Best Man to Die

<b>The stag party was terrific. The incident that followed was terrifying. . . .</b><br><br><b>“The best mystery writer anywere in the English-speaking world.”—<i>The Boston Globe</i></b><br><br>Who could have suspected that the exciting stag party for the groom would be a prelude to the murder of his close friend Charlie Hatton? But it was—and Charlie's death sentence was only the first in a string of puzzling murders involving small-time gangsters, cheating husbands, and loose women.<br><br>Suspense is spiced with ironic twists as Chief Inspector Wexford and his assistant join forces with the groom to track down a killer. . . .<br><br><b>Praise for <i>The Best Man to Die<br></i></b><br>“You cannot afford to miss Ruth Rendell!”<b>—<i>The New York Times Book Review<br></i></b><br>“For readers who have almost given up mysteries . . . Rendell may be just the woman to get them started again.”<b>—Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine<br></b><br>“First-rate entertainment.”<b>—<i>Saturday Review</i></b>