Vanity Dies Hard

Product Description Who would have believed that Alice Whittaker’s life could change? She was 37, rich but dowdy, with no career. Her life was a lonely failure, though 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 behind a trail of broken questions and confused clues. Nothing is as it seems—and in this darker world below, anything can be done by anyone. Even murder…. About the Author Edgar Award–winning author Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) wrote more than seventy books and sold more than twenty million copies worldwide. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (London), she was the recipient of the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Crime Writers’ Association. Rendell’s award-winning novels include A Demon in My View (1976), A Dark-Adapted Eye (1987), and King Solomon’s Carpet (1991). Her popular crime stories featuring Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford were adapted into a long-running British television series (1987–2000) starring George Baker.