''A Sleeping Life'' is a crime-novel by British writer
Ruth Rendell
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, (; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.
Rendell is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford.The Oxford Companion ...
, first published in 1978. It features her popular investigator
Detective Inspector Wexford, and is the tenth novel in the series. It was shortlisted for the Mystery Writers' Of America
Edgar Award, making it one of only two Inspector Wexford novels ever to have been shortlisted for either of the "big two" crime-fiction awards, the Edgar or the
CWA Gold Dagger
The Gold Dagger is an award given annually by the Crime Writers' Association of the United Kingdom since 1960 for the best crime novel of the year.
From 1955 to 1959, the organization named their top honor as the Crossed Red Herring Award. From ...
. ''
An Unkindness of Ravens'' was also nominated several years later.
1978 British novels
Novels by Ruth Rendell
Hutchinson (publisher) books
Inspector Wexford series
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