Background
Rendell, Ruth Barbara was born on February 17, 1930. Daughter of Arthur Grasemann and Ebba Kruse.
(The Detective Book Club series, 3 books in one. A Judgeme...)
The Detective Book Club series, 3 books in one. A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell, Death Through the Looking Glass by Richard Forrest, and Hostage to Death by Jeffrey Ashford
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(In Wexford's opinion, everyone is racist, especially thos...)
In Wexford's opinion, everyone is racist, especially those over 40. Then he becomes involved with the Akandes, whose daughter has gone missing, and has to apply that reality to himself.
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(-Four Inspector Wexford Mysteries~Box Set with Sleeve~Pap...)
-Four Inspector Wexford Mysteries~Box Set with Sleeve~Paperbacks-All in Like New Condition~Pictures Posted-Special Edition(s)-Ballantine Books-Printed in USA-Wolf to the Slaughter=First Ballantine Book Edition-17th Printing-216 pages~Speaker of Mandarin-First Ballantine BookEdition-1984-12th Printing-212 pages~Death Notes-First Ballantine Books Edition-1989-9th Printing-218 pages-Sins of the Father-First Ballantine Books Edition-1993-15th Printing-249 pages-
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(A young girl is murdered in a cemetery. And Wexford's do...)
A young girl is murdered in a cemetery. And Wexford's doctor has prescribed no alcohol, no rich food and, above all, no police work. When a young girl's body is found in a London cemetery and the local police, under the command of Wexford's nephew, are baffled, Wexford decides to brave his doctor's wrath and the condescension of the London police by doing a little investigating of his own. A compelling story of mysterious identity and untimely death, Murder Being Once Done is Rendell at her most sublime. With her Inspector Wexford novels, Ruth Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, has added layers of depth, realism and unease to the classic English mystery. For the canny, tireless, and unflappable policeman is an unblinking observer of human nature, whose study has taught him that under certain circumstances the most unlikely people are capable of the most appalling crimes.
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(Chief Inspector Wexford investigates the murder of a flas...)
Chief Inspector Wexford investigates the murder of a flashy truck driver whose body was found floating in the river. Title: The Best Man to Die Author: Rendell, Ruth Publisher: Random House Publication Date: 1991/01/01 Number of Pages: 201 Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress:
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(The Macmillan Readers series are carefully graded from St...)
The Macmillan Readers series are carefully graded from Starter to Upper Intermediate (A1-B2) to help students choose the right reading material for their ability. Our list of titles includes great stories from both contemporary and classic authors. Chief Inspector Wexford had been sure that the murder of an old lady was carried out by her employee, Herbert Painter, and the courts had agreed with him. But then Henry Archery, whose son is engaged to marry Painter's daughter, starts questioning the case...
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(The bed was neatly made, and the woman on top neatly stra...)
The bed was neatly made, and the woman on top neatly strangled. According to all accounts, Angela Hathall was deeply in love with her husband and far too paranoid to invite an unknown person into their home. So who managed to gain entry and strangle her without a struggle? That is the problem facing Inspector Wexford in Shake Hands Forever. Perhaps it was the mystery woman who left her fingerprints on the Hathall's bathtub? Perhaps it was Angela's husband who lied about a stolen library book? And why was the Hathall home, usually so unkempt, exqisitely clean the day of Angela's death? Then a neighbor--friendly, knowing, disarmingly beautiful--offers Wexford her assistance. And what begins as a rather tricky case turns into an obsession that threatens to destroy the Inspector's career--as well as his marriage. Maddeningly addictive, smart and surprising, Shake Hands Forever showcases Ruth Rendell at the height of her storytelling powers.
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("The Copper Peacock" is read by James Fox whilst the two ...)
"The Copper Peacock" is read by James Fox whilst the two Inspector Wexford Mysteries, "From Doon With Death" and "Kissing the Gunner's Daughter" are both read by Christopher Ravenscroft.
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((2 Audio Cassettes) Ruth Rendell, the internationally cel...)
(2 Audio Cassettes) Ruth Rendell, the internationally celebrated writer of mystery and psychological suspense, delivers a spellbinding tale of murder and redemption. Francine has been scolded and sent to her room. When she peeks downstairs she glimpses a visitor as he brutally murders her mother. For the next nine months Francine will be mute, and when she speaks she will be unable to identify the killer. Harriet, an aging, fading beauty scans the local classified ads for handymen to perform odd jobs around the house and to alleviate in her bedroom the boredom of her marriage to a wealthy, older man. Born to a pair of feckless, barely socialized parents, never played with, cuddled, or even talked to, Teddy has become a very handsome young man who never questions his discovery that killing is an easy way to get what he wants. When these three lives converge, the effect is surprising, harrowing - and unforgettable. A Sight For Sore Eyes is an extraordinary achievement by a writer who continues to expand the boundaries of her craft.
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(Why? Why did he do it? Why had it happened? What sort of ...)
Why? Why did he do it? Why had it happened? What sort of fiend was he? Why should he, Victor Jenner, the child of happily married, middle-class parents, succumb to such violent rages? Why should he have needed to make motiveless attacks on women? Victor didn't know. But Victor did know that the last ten years -- the years in prison -- had been a mistake. He had never intended to rape the girl. He had never intended to harm anyone. It had all been an accident. In fact, his life had been a series of accidents, one mistake leading to the next. Now, out of prison at last, Victor still isn't free. The past holds him so he can't go forward. So Victor goes back -- and begins a new chain of accidents, a new string of tragic mistakes.
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(It's impossible to forget the violent bludgeoning to deat...)
It's impossible to forget the violent bludgeoning to death of an elderly lady in her home. Even more so when it's your first murder case. Wexford believed he'd solved Mrs. Primero's murder fifteen years ago. It was no real mystery. Everyone knew Painter, her odd-job man, had done it. There had never been any doubt in anyone's mind. Until now. Henry Archery's son is engaged to Painter's daughter. Only Archery can't let the past remain buried. He wants to prove Wexford wrong and in probing into the lives of the witnesses questioned all those years ago, he stirs up more than old ghosts.
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( There were some things about Chief Inspector Wexford's ...)
There were some things about Chief Inspector Wexford's trip to China that he could never have dreamt of: That an old woman would haunt him from one city to the next. That a man would be tragically drowned. Or that, back in England, he would be investigating the murder of one of his fellow tourists.
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(Who would garrote a middle-aged housewife and leave her b...)
Who would garrote a middle-aged housewife and leave her body in the parking garage of a suburban shopping mall? Chief Inspector Wexford is no sooner on the case than a car bomb's explosion lands him in the hospital. It's now up to Mike Burden to step in and solve the case. He's got a suspect . . . but will he be able to make him talk?
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(TILL DEATH DO US JOIN...Ever since they ran with the same...)
TILL DEATH DO US JOIN...Ever since they ran with the same London teenage gang Guy Curran has loved Leonora Chisholm passionately. He was a slum kid, and her parents lived in tasteful Kensington; she went to university while he made his jet-set fortune dealing drugs and sentimental, mass-produced art--but he's always been good enough for her, and once they were lovers. Of course she'll marry him in the end--he's been calling her every day for years and buying her lunch every Saturday. Then Leonora tells him she's engaged to some pasty-faced intellectual. But Guy knows she's being brainwashed by her family and friends--from her snobbish brother and her mother with pointy silver fingernails to her so-superior feminist roommate. Leonora and he belong together...If he can't have her, he'll die--or someone else will.
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(From crime fiction’s reigning queen comes a diabolically ...)
From crime fiction’s reigning queen comes a diabolically intricate tale that weaves together the lives of very different people in the vibrant part of London known as Portobello. Fifty-year-old Eugene Wren inherited from his father an art gallery near an arcade that now sells cashmere, handmade soaps, and children’s clothing. But he decided to move to a more upmarket site. Eugene was, perhaps, too secretive for his own good. He also had an addictive personality. But he had cut back radically on his alcohol consumption, and had given up cigarettes. Which was just as well, considering he was dating a doctor. For all his good intentions, though, there was something he didn’t want her to know. One day, Eugene comes across an envelope containing a sum of money. Rather than report the matter to the police, he writes a note and sticks it up on a lamppost near his house. This note would link a number of very different people–each with their own obsessions, problems, dreams, and despairs. And through it all the hectic life of Portobello bustles on. From the Hardcover edition.
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Elderly Gwendolyn Chawcer and her colorful group of friends become increasingly suspicious of her tenant, Michael ''Mix'' Cellini, an eccentric who idolizes serial killer Reggie Christie, as his odd behavior and obsessions take an ever darker turn. Title: Thirteen Steps Down Author: Rendell, Ruth Publisher: Random House Inc Publication Date: 2006/06/06 Number of Pages: 340 Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress: bl2006025826
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(Dazzling psychological suspense. Razor-sharp dialogue. Pl...)
Dazzling psychological suspense. Razor-sharp dialogue. Plots that catch and hold like a noose. These are the hallmarks of crime legend Ruth Rendell, “the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world” (Time magazine). From Doon with Death, now in a striking new paperback edition, is her classic debut novel -- and the book that introduced one of the most popular sleuths of the twentieth century. There is nothing extraordinary about Margaret Parsons, a timid housewife in the quiet town of Kingsmarkham, a woman devoted to her garden, her kitchen, her husband. Except that Margaret Parsons is dead, brutally strangled, her body abandoned in the nearby woods. Who would kill someone with nothing to hide? Inspector Wexford, the formidable chief of police, feels baffled -- until he discovers Margaret's dark secret: a trove of rare books, each volume breathlessly inscribed by a passionate lover identified only as Doon. As Wexford delves deeper into both Mrs. Parsons’ past and the wary community circling round her memory like wolves, the case builds with relentless momentum to a surprise finale as clever as it is blindsiding. In From Doon with Death, Ruth Rendell instantly mastered the form that would become synonymous with her name. Chilling, richly characterized, and ingeniously constructed, this is psychological suspense at its very finest. “One of the most remarkable novelists of her generation.” —People “She has transcended her genre by her remarkable imaginative power to explore and illuminate the dark corners of the human psyche.” —P.D. James
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(Murder, corruption, blackmail. All these are part of some...)
Murder, corruption, blackmail. All these are part of someone else's world, not part of the everyday lives of ordinary people...or are they? This is a collection of sinister stories from the bestselling author who won The Sunday Times Literary Award for 1990.
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(The sixteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving d...)
The sixteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. When a young, black woman goes missing in Kingsmarkham, Wexford must respond to a test not only of his powers of deduction, but of his basic beliefs and prejudices. Only eighteen black people live in Kingsmarkham. One of them is Wexford's new doctor, Raymond Akande. When the doctor's daughter, Melanie, goes missing, the Chief Inspector takes more than just a professional interest in the case. Melanie, just down from university but unable to find a job, disappeared somewhere between the Benefit Office and the bus stop. Or at least no one saw her get on the bus when it came...When the body of a young black woman is discovered, Wexford must overcome his underlying prejudices to allow his investigative skills to succeed.
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(Elizabeth Nightingale found peace and tranquility on her ...)
Elizabeth Nightingale found peace and tranquility on her nightly walks through the rich, dense forests surrounding Myfleet Manor. But the peace she treasured was shattered one night when she found death waiting in the woods. Chief Inspector Wexford and his colleague Inspector Burden find a most unsavory case on their hands -- and must use all their wit and wisdom to solve it . . .
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(A mutilated body found at a rock festival. In spite of d...)
A mutilated body found at a rock festival. In spite of dire predictions, the rock festival in Kingsmarkham seemed to be going off without a hitch, until the hideously disfigured body is discovered in a nearby quarry. And soon Wexford is investigating the links between a local girl gone bad and a charismatic singer who inspires an unwholesome devotion in his followers. Some Lie and Some Die is a devilishly absorbing novel, in which Wexford's deductive powers come up against the aloof arrogance of pop stardom. With her Inspector Wexford novels, Ruth Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, has added layers of depth, realism and unease to the classic English mystery. For the canny, tireless, and unflappable policeman is an unblinking observer of human nature, whose study has taught him that under certain circumstances the most unlikely people are capable of the most appalling crimes.
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( Philip Wardman had more than just the ordinary squeamis...)
Philip Wardman had more than just the ordinary squeamishness where death was concerned. Yet he could hardly avoid the suspicious disappearance of his sister's friend Rebecca Neave, especially when everyone was ascribing the cause to murder. Philip's feminine ideal is the statue of the Roman goddess Flora in his mother's garden. His marble Flora doesn't fade, doesn't alter, doesn't die. But then he meets Senta Pelham, a beautiful, sensual, childlike actress who flagrantly disdains the morals of society and passionately desires the elusive Philip.
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("The Birthday Present" by Barbara Vine - a gripping, psyc...)
"The Birthday Present" by Barbara Vine - a gripping, psychological thriller packed with menace. Intensely imagined, fearful and satisfying' "Sunday Times". Tory MP Ivor Tesham has unconventional tastes. And in bored housewife Hebe Furnal he finds someone to share and enact his sexual fantasies. However, one day it all goes terribly wrong. Ivor plans a special liaison for Hebe's birthday - a daring sexual adventure. But dangerous games have unforeseen costs and consequences. And when there is an accidental death, scandal and ruin cannot be far behind...How long can a secret stay a secret? How long will friends protect a reputation? And how long before guilt catches up with you? "The pre-eminent genius of the psychological thriller". ("Herald"). "Gripping, compelling". ("Mail on Sunday"). "Vintage Vine". ("Literary Review"). If you like P.D. James, Ian Rankin and Scott Turow, you will love "The Bithday Present" by Barbara Vine. Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym, including "A Fatal Inversion" and "King Solomon's Carpet" which both won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Her other books include: "A Dark Adapted Eye"; "The House of Stairs"; "Gallowglass"; "Asta's Book"; "No Night Is Too Long"; "In the Time of His Prosperity"; "The Brimstone Wedding"; "The Chimney Sweeper's Boy"; "Grasshopper"; "The Blood Doctor"; "The Minotaur"; "The Birthday Present" and "The Child's Child".
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(6 Compact Discs. Approximately 6 hours. Digitally Mastere...)
6 Compact Discs. Approximately 6 hours. Digitally Mastered-Dolby Sound. NO NIGHT IS TOO LONG: Read by Alan Cumming. Tim thought he'd gotten away with it. For months after the murder off the Alaskan coast he'd heard not a word. No policeman at his door asking questions. Nothing. And then the letters began. At first they seemed almost innocuous accounts of historical events. But a common theme emerged quickly. It was particulrly germane to Tim, and it related directly to murder. In No Night Is Too Long, Barbara Vine has written a tour de force, rich in characters and setting, a remarkable novel by an internationally celebrated master of her craft. To research the book, the author and her hushand embarked on a boat trip from Seattle up the Alaskan coast. The stark beauty of that experience provides No Night Is Too Long with an extraordinarily vivid sense of place. The novel's exploration of sexual identity and guilt represents a departure for Vine. Its resolution - as always - is a stunning surprise. A DARK ADAPTED EYE: Read by Sophie Ward. When Faith Severn's aunt was hanged for murder, the reason behind her dark deed died with her. For 30 years, the family hid the truth--until a journalist prompts Faith to peer back to the day when her aunt took knife in hand and entered a child's nursery
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(HB no DJ ,illustrated cover see pictures. Title Maigret's...)
HB no DJ ,illustrated cover see pictures. Title Maigret's rival/Witness Before the Fact/The Lake of Darkness. Editor Walter J. Black. Publisher: Detective Book Club,Inc, by Walter J. Black. Cpyrt: 1980. English. 185 pages. Size 7.6 by 5.4 by 1.1.
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(She waits for him in the dark, her mind and body perfect,...)
She waits for him in the dark, her mind and body perfect, passive, until one day, when he goes to the cellar, and she is gone . . . In A Demon in My View, Ruth Rendell creates a character as frightening as he is fascinating. Mild-mannered Arthur Johnson has never known how to talk to women. And his loneliness has perverted his desire for love and respect into a carefully controlled penchant for violence. One floor below him, a scholar finishing his thesis on psychopathic personalities is about to stumble—quite literally—upon one of Arthur's many secrets. Haunting and intelligent, A Demon in My View shows the startling results of this chilling alchemy of two very disparate minds—one pathological and the other obsessed with pathology.
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(After a truffle-hunting dog unearths a human hand instead...)
After a truffle-hunting dog unearths a human hand instead of a precious fungus, Chief Inspector Wexford and his team proceed to interrogate everyone who lives nearby to see if they can turn up a match for the errant appendage among the eighty-five people who have disappeared over the past decade in this part of England. Then, when a second body is discovered nearby, Wexford experiences a feeling that's become a rarity for the veteran policeman: surprise. As Wexford painstakingly moves to resolve these multiple mysteries, long-buried secrets are brought to daylight, and Ruth Rendell once again proves why she has been hailed as our greatest living mystery writer.
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(The Fourth Wexford Omnibus : Incorporating Wolf to the sl...)
The Fourth Wexford Omnibus : Incorporating Wolf to the slaughter, put on By cunning, the Speaker of Mandarin - Ruth Rendell - Quality Paperbacks Direct
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(Two young girls disappear then return home unharmed some ...)
Two young girls disappear then return home unharmed some days later. Chief Inspector Wexford is concerned about a pedophile who has been recently released back into the community but cannot foresee a series of serious crimes waiting to happen.
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(Alan Groombridge had a fantasy. Bored with his life, he d...)
Alan Groombridge had a fantasy. Bored with his life, he dreamed of stealing enough money from the bank he worked in to allow him just one year of happiness. But when the bank is robbed, Groombridge is caught up in a nightmare.
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(What on earth could have provoked a modern day St. Valent...)
What on earth could have provoked a modern day St. Valentine's Day massacre? On Valentine's Day, four members of the Coverdale family--George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles--were murdered in the space of 15 minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them, one by one, in the blue light of a televised performance of Don Giovanni. When Detective Chief Superintendent William Vetch arrests Miss Parchman two weeks later, he discovers a second tragedy: the key to the Valentine's Day massacre hidden within a private humiliation Eunice Parchman has guarded all her life. A brilliant rendering of character, motive, and the heady discovery of truth, A Judgement in Stone is among Ruth Rendell's finest psychological thrillers.
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(The first death could have been an accident. When Mavis ...)
The first death could have been an accident. When Mavis Ambrose is killed by a falling chunk of concrete, the police have no reason to suspect mischief. However, the bludgeoning of the young and gorgeous Amber Marshalson that follows is clearly murder. In the midst of the hottest summer on record, Inspector Wexford is called in to investigate. He discovers the two cases may be linked, and that Amber was at the scene of Mavis’s death. When a third body is found, the case takes a disturbing and unexpected turn. The deeper Wexford digs, the darker the realities become, and what he finds leaves him feeling lost in a world absent of morals.
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(The coded messages that John Creevey should never have se...)
The coded messages that John Creevey should never have seen were coming in fast. Was it a major spy ring? A drugs gang? A protection racket? Whatever, to John Creevey the messages were a lifeline — a means of getting back his wife and perhaps a way to harm the man who had seduced her away from him.
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( Love and death are the principal players in these two B...)
Love and death are the principal players in these two BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations of chilling Ruth Rendell stories. In "The Bridesmaid", when Philip embarks on an affair with Senta, his sister's bridesmaid, she reminds him of the stone statue he adored as a child. Yet Senta is married, and Philip's overwhelming aversion to violence leads indirectly to murder and horror as he is drawn into erotic but murderous complicity. Starring Jamie Glover and Rachel Lewis. In "Going Wrong", natural born villain Guy Curran has youth, good looks, and charm, but not the one thing he longs for: Leonora, the sophisticated girl he has loved since childhood. When Guy learns that she's about to get married, his growing obsession convinces him that if Leonora can't be his, nor can she be anyone else's - ever. Starring Peter Wingfield and Oona Beeson.
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(Unabridged audio book. 8 CDs. Narrated by Davina Porter. ...)
Unabridged audio book. 8 CDs. Narrated by Davina Porter. Detective chief inspectors have better things to do with their time than listen to women complain about philandering husbands. It takes Inspector Wexford less than five minutes to figure that's what his current case is all about. Yet he's dead wrong.
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(Sir Manual Camargue had just announced his intention of t...)
Sir Manual Camargue had just announced his intention of taking a second wife, 50 years his junior. On the same cold winter's day, he died as a result of what was surely a tragic accident. But Wexford doubts that Camargue's death came by misadventure.
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(KISSING THE GUNNER'S DAUGHTER A sergeant in the Kingsmark...)
KISSING THE GUNNER'S DAUGHTER A sergeant in the Kingsmarkham police force is tragically killed. Ten months later, Wexford enters a bloodbath of a crime scene, where a family has been brutally murdered. 'Her most brilliant Wexford mystery to date- The plot is complicated and elaborately detailed but, as usual, there is not one superfluous word- stunning imagery' Kate Saunders, Cosmopolitan. 'Beyond praise, completely compelling - will delight all Wexford's admirers' Allan Massie, The Scotsman. SIMISOLA When a young black woman is murdered, Wexford must overcome his prejudices to allow his investigative skills to succeed...'Impressive and courageous- Rendell's psychological and social insights are so absorbing, it's easy to forget what a superb plotter she is. As a mystery, Simisola is exceptional- pace, surprise, tension and a climax of stunning unexpectedness' The Times. ROAD RAGE When Wexford's wife goes missing, the detective is in a race against time to solve a murder case, before Dora Wexford is placed in mortal danger...'The book could hardly be more readable- A brilliant evocation of place, character and mood' Evening Standard. 'With immaculate control, Ruth Rendell builds a menacing crescendo of tension and horror that keeps you guessing right up to the brilliantly paced finale' Good Housekeeping.
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(One of the world's most acclaimed mystery writers present...)
One of the world's most acclaimed mystery writers presents an anthology of literary depictions of murder that delves into the human passions, terrors, and foibles that incite the act and linger in its wake. Includes such writers as Sophocles, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Poe, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Albert Camus, Graham Greene, P.D. James, Truman Capote, and Norman Mailer.
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(Sixteen-year-old Elvira's mother is dead. Elvira is sad, ...)
Sixteen-year-old Elvira's mother is dead. Elvira is sad, of course, but not so sad as her younger sister Spinny. Spinny is afraid their father, Luke, will be heartbroken, but Elvira knows better―after all, Luke has her to take her mother's place. But then Luke brings home a pretty young woman and introduces her as his fiancee, and Elvira decides that she will stop at nothing to stop her father's marriage.
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(In a shabby London suburb, sixteen-year-old Pup Yearman d...)
In a shabby London suburb, sixteen-year-old Pup Yearman dabbles in magic. But for Pup's older sister Dolly, the magic is more than dabbling. Deformed by a facial birthmark, Dolly desperately wants to be cured, and her obsession with Pup's magic sends her on a dangerous downward spiral into confusion, madness, and possibly murder. And meanwhile, in a squalid boardinghouse not far away, a young Irishman sharpens a set of butcher knives
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(1991 Book-of-the Month Club hardcover, Ruth Rendell (El m...)
1991 Book-of-the Month Club hardcover, Ruth Rendell (El minotauro). A story of three people whose fondest wishes come true - with totally unexpected results.
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( Wealthy Alice Whittaker is known for her generosity, an...)
Wealthy Alice Whittaker is known for her generosity, and when her friend Nesta vanishes Alice is determined to find her and help her. If that means money, well, Alice has plenty of it. Then the handsome Mr Fielding enters her life, ten years younger than Alice and they marry. But when Alice starts to feel sick -- a virus perhaps, something she just can't shake, her husband seems determined to keep her at home. Is he just being a doting husband who wants his wife to get better? Or is he trying to keep her from finding Nesta? Unwell though she is, Alice can't help asking questions. And the more she learns about Nesta's disappearance, the more certain she becomes that her own life is in peril
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(A mother and a daughter live quietly in the rustic gateho...)
A mother and a daughter live quietly in the rustic gatehouse of Shrove House, an isolated British estate. Their life seems perfectly ordinary except that daughter Liza has been kept isolated from the outside world for all of her sixteen years. And that he has seen her beautiful mother commit murder... more than once. Now, as the police come searching for a missing man, Liza's sheltered, strange world begins to fall apart. Piece by piece she will reveal her mother's tale of betrayal, desire, and obsession. Step-by-step we discover how much like mother, like daughter she is.
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(It was better than a hotel, this anonymous room on a secl...)
It was better than a hotel, this anonymous room on a secluded side street of a small country town. No register to sign, no questions asked, and for five bucks a man could have three hours of undisturbed, illicit lovemaking. Then one evening a man with a knife turned the love nest into a death chamber. The carpet was soaked with blood -- but where was the corpse? Meanwhile, a beautiful, promiscuous woman is missing -- along with the bundle of cash she'd had in her pocket. The truth behind it all will keep even veteran mystery fans guessing through the very last page.
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(Mix Cellini has just moved into a flat in a decaying hous...)
Mix Cellini has just moved into a flat in a decaying house in Nottinghill, where he plans to pursue his two abiding passions--supermodel Nerissa Nash, whom he worships from afar, and the life of serial killer Reggie Christie, hanged fifty years earlier for murdering at least eight women. Gwendolen Chawcer, Mix’s eighty-year-old landlady has few interests beside her old books and her new tenant. But she does have an intriguing connection to Christie. And when reality intrudes into Mix’s life, he turns toi Christie for inspiration and a long pent-up violence explodes. Intricately plotted and brilliantly written, 13 Steps Down enters the minds of these disparate people as they move inexorably toward its breathtaking conclusion.
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( Award-winning novelist Ruth Rendell presents a chilling...)
Award-winning novelist Ruth Rendell presents a chilling novel of obsession and violence. Two years ago, he had been a promising young novelist. Now he barely survives in a near derelict cottage with only his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla―the rich, unstable girl with everything she needed, and a husband she wanted dead. The affair was over. But the long slide into violence had just begun.…
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(Louise North doesn't care what the neighbors think. She l...)
Louise North doesn't care what the neighbors think. She lets her lover leave his car just outside her house in broad daylight, telling everyone a cockamamie story about him being a central heating salesman. Still, it's a shock when she's found shot dead, covered by the equally dead body of the "salesman." Now Susan Townsend -- the Norths' next-door neighbor, who discovers the bodies -- must help Louise's husband, Bob, get back on his feet. But is she helping a neighbor . . . or a murderer?
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(The winter before he was sixteen, amateur magician Pup ma...)
The winter before he was sixteen, amateur magician Pup made a Faustian pact and sold his soul to the devil. He wasn't quite sure what he was going to get in exchange. Pup's older sister, Dolly, is manically obsessed with her birthmark, believing it is responsible for her status as a social outcast. She becomes pathologically transfixed by Pup's dabbling in magic, desperate to believe he has occult powers that can cure her disfigurement, improve their lives, and kill their stepmother. As Dolly's obsession grows, a young mentally disturbed Irishman lurks just around the corner, inseparable from his sharpened set of knives... In this intense and deeply disturbing novel, Ruth Rendell explores a haunted world of obsession, delusions and murderous fantasy, with dazzling virtuosity.
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(With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and...)
With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and his own home and no end to the rain in sight, Chief Inspector Wexford already has his hands full when he learns that two local teenagers have gone missing along with their sitter, Joanna Troy. Their hysterical mother is convinced that all three have drowned, and as the hours stretch into days Wexford suspects a case of kidnapping, perhaps connected with an unusual sect called the Church of the Good Gospel. But when the sitter’s smashed-up car is found at the bottom of a local quarry–occupied by a battered corpse–the investigation takes on a very different hue. The Babes in the Wood is Ruth Rendell at her very best, a scintillating, precise and troubling story of seduction and religious fanaticism–and murder.
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( A stranger lures a child into his car with the promise...)
A stranger lures a child into his car with the promise of sweets. A young man spots his fiancée’s double in a public park of ill repute. An executive visits the secluded home of a former employee whose intentions are frightfully unclear. A modest soul weds the woman he rescues from suicide—only to fall victim to an unfathomable form of possessiveness... In the eleven tales gathered in The Fallen Curtain, Ruth Rendell—the grande dame of the literary mystery—lays bare the twisted inner workings of the unbalanced mind. Here are eleven tales of haunting psychological accuracy: the gesture that betrays a parent's madness, the childhood memory clouded with denial, the utterance that introduces the threat of violence in a situation as benign as a dinner date. Instantly engaging, maddeningly addictive, The Fallen Curtain testifies to the enduring talents of a master of the genre.
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(What kind of a person would kidnap two children? That is...)
What kind of a person would kidnap two children? That is the question that haunts Wexford when a five-year-old boy and a twelve-year-old girl disappear from the village of Kingsmarkham. When a child's body turns up at an abandoned country home one search turns into a murder investigation and the other turns into a race against time. Filled with pathos and terror, passion, bitterness, and loss, No More Dying Then is Rendell at her most chillingly astute. With her Inspector Wexford novels, Ruth Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, has added layers of depth, realism and unease to the classic English mystery. For the canny, tireless, and unflappable policeman is an unblinking observer of human nature, whose study has taught him that under certain circumstances the most unlikely people are capable of the most appalling crimes.
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( With deceptive economy in these nine short stories, Rut...)
With deceptive economy in these nine short stories, Ruth Rendell indicates hidden depths in ordinary events and creates a sense of profound unease. The stories are: * A Pair of Yellow Lilies * Paperwork * Mother's Help * Long Live the Queen * Dying Happy * The Copper Peacock * Weeds * The Fish-Sitter * An Unwanted Woman
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(Gossip in tiny Linchester is raised to new heights when y...)
Gossip in tiny Linchester is raised to new heights when young Patrick Selby dies on the night of his beautiful wife's birthday party. The whole neighborhood was there, witness to the horrible attack of wasps Peter suffered at the end of the evening. But did Peter die of the stings? Dr. Greenleaf thinks not. After all, wasps aren't the only creatures that kill with poison . . .
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( Two things interest Stanley Manning: crossword p...)
Two things interest Stanley Manning: crossword puzzles, and the substantial sum his wife Vera stands to inherit when his mother-in-law dies. Otherwise, life at 61 Lanchester Road is a living hell. For Mrs. Kinaway lives with them now—and she will stop at nothing to tear their marriage apart. One afternoon, Stanley sets aside his crossword puzzles and changes all their lives forever... In One Across, Two Down, master crime writer Ruth Rendell describes a man whose strained sanity and stained reputation transform him from a witless loser into a killer afraid of his own shadow. Mischievously plotted, smart, maddeningly entertaining, One Across, Two Down is a dark delight—classic Rendell.
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(Mopsa, driven by a past scarred by madness and violence. ...)
Mopsa, driven by a past scarred by madness and violence. Benet, stricken by the most grievous loss any woman can bear. Carol, trapped in a life of crushing drabness no lover can change. Three mothers joined by a single thread of terror, whirled into a spiral of kidnapping, murder, and a final, reckless affirmation of love.
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(Who could have suspected that the exciting stag party for...)
Who could have suspected that the exciting stag party for the groom would be the prelude to the murder of his close friend Charlie Hatton? And Charlie's death was only the first in a string of puzzling murders involving small-time gangsters, cheating husbands, and loose women. Now Chief Inspector Wexford and his assistant join forces with the groom to track down a killer . . .
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(Martin Urban is a quiet bachelor with a comfortable life,...)
Martin Urban is a quiet bachelor with a comfortable life, free of worry and distractions. When he unexpectedly comes into a small fortune, he decides to use his newfound wealth to help out those in need. Finn also leads a quiet life, and comes into a little money of his own. Normally, their paths would never have crossed. But Martin’s ideas about who should benefit from his charitable impulses yield some unexpected results, and soon the good intentions of the one become fatally entangled with the mercenary nature of the other. In the Lake of Darkness, Ruth Rendell takes the old adage that no good deed goes unpunished to a startling, haunting conclusion.
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(NY, Doubleday/Crime Club (1965) First Edition in the Unit...)
NY, Doubleday/Crime Club (1965) First Edition in the United States of America, so stated. 1st printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Light transfer stain from red cover boards at top of front and rear pastedowns (under dustjacket flaps), slight rubbing to free endpapers, slight foxing to top page edge, else very good hardcover. Tight and straight. Dustjacket has intact price of $3.50 on front flap. Dustjacket has slight edgewear at head of spine and at tip of bottom back foreedge, pin dot stain at bottom front, else very good in archival mylar cover. Smoke and pet free premises. Additional photos available. Not a remainder or ex-library copy. No previous owner marks. B251
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(Rhoda Comfrey's death seemed unremarkable; the real myste...)
Rhoda Comfrey's death seemed unremarkable; the real mystery was her life. In A Sleeping Life, master mystery writer Ruth Rendell unveils an elaborate web of lies and deception painstakingly maintained by a troubled soul. A wallet found in Comfrey's handbag leads Inspector Wexford to Mr. Grenville West, a writer whose plots revel in the blood, thunder, and passion of dramas of old; whose current whereabouts are unclear; and whose curious secretary--the plain Polly Flinders--provides the Inspector with more questions than answers. And when a second Grenville West comes to light, Wexford faces a dizzying array of possible scenarios--and suspects--behind the Comfrey murder. Brilliantly entertaining, exceptionally crafted, A Sleeping Life evokes the dark realities, half-truths, and flights of fancy that constitute a life.
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(Rodney Williams's disappearance seems typical to Chief In...)
Rodney Williams's disappearance seems typical to Chief Inspector Wexford -- a simple case of a man running off with a woman other than his wife. But when another woman reports that her husband is missing, the case turns unpleasantly complex.
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Rendell, Ruth Barbara was born on February 17, 1930. Daughter of Arthur Grasemann and Ebba Kruse.
Student, Loughton County High School, England.
(-Four Inspector Wexford Mysteries~Box Set with Sleeve~Pap...)
(After a truffle-hunting dog unearths a human hand instead...)
(Mix Cellini has just moved into a flat in a decaying hous...)
(Who could have suspected that the exciting stag party for...)
(Why? Why did he do it? Why had it happened? What sort of ...)
(With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and...)
(Elderly Gwendolyn Chawcer and her colorful group of frien...)
(Who would garrote a middle-aged housewife and leave her b...)
(One of the world's most acclaimed mystery writers present...)
("The Copper Peacock" is read by James Fox whilst the two ...)
(What kind of a person would kidnap two children? That is...)
(From crime fiction’s reigning queen comes a diabolically ...)
((2 Audio Cassettes) Ruth Rendell, the internationally cel...)
( There were some things about Chief Inspector Wexford's ...)
(The Macmillan Readers series are carefully graded from St...)
(The Fourth Wexford Omnibus : Incorporating Wolf to the sl...)
( With deceptive economy in these nine short stories, Rut...)
( Two things interest Stanley Manning: crossword p...)
(Rodney Williams's disappearance seems typical to Chief In...)
( Wealthy Alice Whittaker is known for her generosity, an...)
(Gossip in tiny Linchester is raised to new heights when y...)
(Elizabeth Nightingale found peace and tranquility on her ...)
(She waits for him in the dark, her mind and body perfect,...)
(A volume of five Wexford cases ranging from crimes of pas...)
( Love and death are the principal players in these two B...)
(Chief Inspector Wexford investigates the murder of a flas...)
(The winter before he was sixteen, amateur magician Pup ma...)
(A mother and a daughter live quietly in the rustic gateho...)
(Sir Manual Camargue had just announced his intention of t...)
(It was better than a hotel, this anonymous room on a secl...)
("The Birthday Present" by Barbara Vine - a gripping, psyc...)
(KISSING THE GUNNER'S DAUGHTER A sergeant in the Kingsmark...)
(The sixteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving d...)
(It's impossible to forget the violent bludgeoning to deat...)
(Martin Urban is a quiet bachelor with a comfortable life,...)
(NY, Doubleday/Crime Club (1965) First Edition in the Unit...)
( Award-winning novelist Ruth Rendell presents a chilling...)
( Philip Wardman had more than just the ordinary squeamis...)
(For a specific description of this book, please see each ...)
(The coded messages that John Creevey should never have se...)
(In a shabby London suburb, sixteen-year-old Pup Yearman d...)
(Rhoda Comfrey's death seemed unremarkable; the real myste...)
(Two young girls disappear then return home unharmed some ...)
( A stranger lures a child into his car with the promise...)
(In Wexford's opinion, everyone is racist, especially thos...)
(1991 Book-of-the Month Club hardcover, Ruth Rendell (El m...)
(The bed was neatly made, and the woman on top neatly stra...)
(Mopsa, driven by a past scarred by madness and violence. ...)
(Five mystery stories featuring Chief Inspector Wexford.)
(Page edges tanned, spine edges and back cover bumped.Ship...)
(Louise North doesn't care what the neighbors think. She l...)
(To Fear The Painted Devil - Ruth Rendell - Panther)
(What on earth could have provoked a modern day St. Valent...)
(The Detective Book Club series, 3 books in one. A Judgeme...)
(The first death could have been an accident. When Mavis ...)
(A mutilated body found at a rock festival. In spite of d...)
(HB no DJ ,illustrated cover see pictures. Title Maigret's...)
(Sixteen-year-old Elvira's mother is dead. Elvira is sad, ...)
(A young girl is murdered in a cemetery. And Wexford's do...)
(Dazzling psychological suspense. Razor-sharp dialogue. Pl...)
(Alan Groombridge had a fantasy. Bored with his life, he d...)
(Murder, corruption, blackmail. All these are part of some...)
(trade edition paperback, vg+)
(1991 HARDCOVER w/DUST JACKET)
(Early Ruth Rendell mystery)
(TILL DEATH DO US JOIN...Ever since they ran with the same...)
(Unabridged audio book. 8 CDs. Narrated by Davina Porter. ...)
(Spanish language book)
(Boxed set of 4 books)
(Hardcover, w/jacket. 1991 1st US ptg. Ex-lib, w/usual mar...)
(6 Compact Discs. Approximately 6 hours. Digitally Mastere...)
(Fiction, mystery)
(3 books in one)
Married Donald Rendell, 1950.