Title: The veiled one
First published: 1988
Description: A classic Chief Inspector Wexford MysteryThe woman's body lay between a silver Escort and a dark-blue Lancia. Concealed by a shroud of dirty brown velvet, it looked like a heap of rags.In the desolate subterranean Barringdean Shopping Centre, Reg Wexford had been too preoccupied to notice anything out of the ordinary, just the time and a red car driving past him too fast.Burden called him home at with the grim news later that evening. The woman had been attacked from behind, perhaps with a thin length of cord wire. Before Inspector Wexford can delve deeper into the curious homicide, he, too, faces death. And Burden, for a while conducting the investigation without the help of his chief's instinctive analytical genius, will blunder down a number of blind alleys.
Subjects: Fiction, Police, Inspector Wexford (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, Mystery, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Wexford, inspector (fictitious character), fiction, England, fiction
Places: England, Sussex, Sussex (England)