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No More Dying Then
First edition (UK)
AuthorRuth Rendell
LanguageEnglish
SeriesInspector Wexford #6
GenreCrime, Mystery novel
PublisherHutchinson (UK)
The Crime Club (US)
Publication date
4 October 1971
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
ISBN0-09-108150-5
OCLC15523997
Preceded byA Guilty Thing Surprised 
Followed byMurder Being Once Done 

No More Dying Then is a novel by the British crime-writer Ruth Rendell. It was first published in 1971, and is the sixth title in her popular Inspector Wexford series. The Independent Mystery Booksellers Association listed the book as one of its 100 Favourite Crime Novels of the Century.

Plot summary

On a stormy February afternoon, little Stella Rivers disappears and is never seen again. Then, on a warm October day, five-year-old John Lawrence fails to come home, and evil, mad, taunting letters begin, which make the worst, unspoken imaginings a brutal reality.