A Sleeping Life

A Sleeping Life is a crime-novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, 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. An Unkindness of Ravens was also nominated several years later.

A Sleeping Life
First edition hardcover
AuthorRuth Rendell
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesInspector Wexford #10
GenreCrime novel
PublisherHutchinson (UK)
Doubleday (US)
Publication date
8 May 1978
Media typePrint (Hardcover & Paperback)
ISBN0-09-132540-4
OCLC4068236
823/.9/14
LC ClassPZ4.R4132 Sl 1978b PR6068.E63
Preceded byShake Hands Forever 
Followed byPut on By Cunning 


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