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Pretty maids all in a row

When actress Jessica Randal accompanied her husband to the country for a month's research, she expected to be bored, especially since her leg was in plaster. Yet within a week she learned they were renting the house of a murder victim, and that a rapist obsessed with nursery rhymes was at large. Since she might have met the man socially, Jessica regarded all her neighbours with suspicion and worse, began to wonder how well she knew her new husband. By the time Chief Inspector Webb and Sergeant Jackson unmasked the culprit, the innocent world of nursery rhymes has been contaminated for ever.

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  • "When actress Jessica Randal accompanied her husband to the country for a month's research, she expected to be bored, especially since her leg was in plaster. Yet within a week she learned they were renting the house of a murder victim, and that a rapist obsessed with nursery rhymes was at large. Since she might have met the man socially, Jessica regarded all her neighbours with suspicion and worse, began to wonder how well she knew her new husband. By the time Chief Inspector Webb and Sergeant Jackson unmasked the culprit, the innocent world of nursery rhymes has been contaminated for ever."@en
  • "Actress Jessica Randal has been incapacitated by a broken leg, and both she and her husband of eight weeks, author Matthew Selby, think they will have a month of tranquility and convalescence when they rent Hinckley cottage near the rustic English village of Westridge. But a demented rapist is stalking the town, striking quickly, savagely and often, and always adding his own macabre touch to the act by forcing his terrified victims to recite nursery rhymes. When the body of Freda Cowley, missing owner of Hinckley cottage, is discovered with a nursery rhyme tucked into her pocket, it becomes apparent that the rapist is also a murderer, and the community, populated with well-meaning, sharp-eyed and astute citizens, draws together for support and protection and tries to make sure that Jessica, housebound and helpless, has someone with her when Matthew is out of town. Jessica is indeed at risk, for several bizarre incidents have drawn suspicion to her husband, and clues suggest she is next on the murderer's list."
  • "Actress Jessica Randal has been incapacitated by a broken leg, and both she and her husband of eight weeks, author Matthew Selby, think they will have a month of tranquility and convalescence when they rent Hinckley cottage near the rustic English village of Westridge. But a demented rapist is stalking the town, striking quickly, savagely and often, and always adding his own macabre touch to the act by forcing his terrified victims to recite nursery rhymes. When the body of Freda Cowley, missing owner of Hinckley cottage, is discovered with a nursery rhyme tucked into her pocket, it becomes apparent that the rapist is also a murderer, and the community, populated with well-meaning, sharp-eyed and astute citizens, draws together for support and protection and tries to make sure that Jessica, housebound and helpless, has someone with her when Matthew is out of town. Jessica is indeed at risk, for several bizarre incidents have drawn suspicion to her husband, and clues suggest she is next on the murderer's list."@en

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  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Fiction - Mystery"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"

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  • "Pretty maids all in a row"
  • "Pretty maids all in a row"@en
  • "Uma fila de meninas"
  • "Pretty maids all in a row [Large print version]"@en

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