The Fifth Rapunzel by Gill, B. M - 1993

Worldwide Library. Very Good. 1993. Paperback. The spine and both covers, next to the spine, are creased from reading. The pages are clean, no tears or soiling. The pages and binding are tight. There is a light crease at the top of the back cover. There is a used bookstore's stamp on the inside of the front cover and another store's stamp on the first page. ; An Inspector Maybridge Mystery; Vol. 3; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 253 pages; Detective Chief Inspector Tom Maybridge (Death Drop, etc. ) is shocked by the car-accident deaths of forensic pathologist Professor Peter Bradshaw and his wife Lisa. Bradshaw had been a neighbor and professional colleague, working with Maybridge most recently on the so-called Rapunzel murders, for which serial strangler Charles Hixon is serving a life sentence. Maybridge's wife Meg tries to comfort the Bradshaws' only child, 18-year-old Simon, living alone in the big family house until the arrival of Rhoda Osborne, who claims to be writing a piece on his mother, who had been an art historian. But Osborne is really looking for clues to her vanished sister Clare, latest of Peter Bradshaw's many mistresses. Simon's life had been traumatized by his coldly neurotic mother, an in-and-out patient at a nearby psychiatric nursing home. His reluctant involvement with Sally, a pretty, calculating worker there, adds another off-beat tragedy to the dark chronicle and inadvertently fulfills Osborne's mission. Will combine shipping on more than one book. .