No Man's Nightingale

No Man's Nightingale
	First edition (UK)
Author	Ruth Rendell
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Inspector Wexford # 24
Genre	Crime/Mystery novel
Publisher	Hutchinson
Publication date	2013
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	288 pp
ISBN	0-09-195384-7
Preceded by	The Vault

No Man's Nightingale is a novel by crime writer Ruth Rendell published in 2013,^[1]^[2] It featuring her recurring protagonist Inspector Wexford. The novel is the second in which Wexford has appeared after his retirement, and on this occasion is called in to consult on a crime by his ex colleague and friend Mike Burden.

No Man's Nightingale is, initially, about the (female) vicar (Sarah Hussain) of Saint Peter's Church (in Kingsmarkham) who's been found dead in the vicarage - strangled. Reginald Wexford, now retired as a policeman, assists with the murder investigation,^[3]

This was the last novel in the Inspector Wexford series as Rendell died on 2 May 2015, having suffered a stroke earlier that year.

References[]

^ (November 11, 2013). ""No Man's Nightingale" by Ruth Rendell". The Boston Globe. John W. Henry. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
^ "No Man's Nightingale (Chief Inspector Wexford, book 24) by Ruth Rendell".
^ "No Man's Nightingale: An Inspector Wexford Novel". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 10 November 2018.

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[The_Boston_Globe_-_11_November_2013_-_No_Man's_Nightingale_by_Ruth_Rendell-1] (November 11, 2013). ""No Man's Nightingale" by Ruth Rendell". The Boston Globe. John W. Henry. Retrieved 15 July 2015.

[2] "No Man's Nightingale (Chief Inspector Wexford, book 24) by Ruth Rendell".

[Publishers_Weekly_-_9_February_2013_-Man’s_Nightingale:_An_Inspector_Wexford_Novel-3] "No Man's Nightingale: An Inspector Wexford Novel". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 10 November 2018.

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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 Saint 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 A Spot of Folly
TV series	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries The Barbara Vine Mysteries