A Guilty Thing Surprised

A Guilty Thing Surprised
First edition (UK)
Author	Ruth Rendell
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Inspector Wexford # 5
Genre	Crime novel
Publisher	Hutchinson (UK) The Crime Club (US)
Publication date	16 March 1970
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
ISBN	0-09-101340-2
OCLC	96653
Dewey Decimal	823/.9/14
LC Class	PZ4.R4132 Gu PR6068.E63
Preceded by	The Best Man to Die
Followed by	No More Dying Then

A Guilty Thing Surprised is a novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell. It was first published in 1970, and is the 5th entry in her popular Inspector Wexford series.

Plot summary

When Elizabeth Nightingale was beaten to death, it seemed a straightforward enough case. But Detective Chief Inspector Wexford discovered that beneath the placid surface of the Nightingales' lives there were undercurrents and secrets that no one had ever suspected.

Ruth Rendell

Inspector Wexford novels	From Doon with Death A New Lease of Death Wolf to the Slaughter The Best Man to Die A Guilty Thing Surprised No More Dying Then Murder Being Once Done Some Lie and Some Die Shake Hands Forever A Sleeping Life Put on By Cunning The Speaker of Mandarin An Unkindness of Ravens The Veiled One Kissing the Gunner's Daughter Simisola Road Rage Harm Done The Babes in the Wood End in Tears Not in the Flesh The Monster in the Box The Vault No Man's Nightingale

Stand-alone novels	To Fear a Painted Devil Vanity Dies Hard The Secret House of Death One Across, Two Down The Face of Trespass A Demon in My View A Judgement in Stone Make Death Love Me The Lake of Darkness Master of the Moor The Killing Doll The Tree of Hands Live Flesh Heartstones Talking to Strange Men The Bridesmaid Going Wrong The Crocodile Bird The Keys to the Street A Sight for Sore Eyes Adam and Eve and Pinch Me The Rottweiler Thirteen Steps Down The Thief The Water's Lovely Portobello Tigerlily's Orchids The St Zita Society The Girl Next Door Dark Corners

As Barbara Vine	A Dark-Adapted Eye A Fatal Inversion The House of Stairs Gallowglass King Solomon's Carpet Asta's Book No Night is Too Long The Brimstone Wedding The Chimney-sweeper's Boy Grasshopper The Blood Doctor The Minotaur The Birthday Present The Child's Child

Short story collections	The Fallen Curtain Means of Evil The Fever Tree The New Girlfriend The Copper Peacock Blood Lines Piranha to Scurfy

TV series	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

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