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Prolific crime and mystery writer Ruth Rendell, perhaps best known for her Chief Inspector Wexford novels, died Saturday, said her publisher, Penguin Random House. She was 85. The cause of death was ...

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The British author wrote crime novels for 50 years, many featuring Chief Inspector "Reg" Wexford. Rendell died May 2. Originally broadcast in 1989... 'Fresh Air' Remembers Mystery Novelist Ruth ...

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Ruth Rendell has passed away today (May 2), aged 85. The bestselling author was admitted to hospital after she suffered a serious stroke in January. Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert The news was confirmed in a ...

THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, by Ruth Rendell. Scribner, 272 pp., $26. Here is how the average mystery writer would open "The Girl Next Door": In greater London, a construction worker finds and turns over to ...

Vine (the pseudonymous Ruth Rendell) offers a lyrical, leisurely paced psychological thriller that teems with deftly drawn characters who inhabit a dark world centered in the London Underground. (June ...

A collection of stories involving mystery and suspense adapted from the works of author Ruth Rendell. Author Ruth Rendell is considered to have pioneered the psychological thriller with her page ...

Wexford fans may be disappointed by the shortage of memorable characters in Rendell's latest mystery to feature the chief inspector, a solid, if not spectacular, entry in the series. As in her ...

Explore the dark world of crime writer Ruth Rendell in Secret Suffolk. Matt Marvel explores a teenage fascination with A Fatal Inversion to the author’s ties to Suffolk, this episode uncovers how Ruth ...