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Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE (née Grasemann; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. [ 1 ] Rendell is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford . [ 2 ]
Vanity Dies Hard is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, published in 1966 by John Long Ltd in the UK [1] and in the same year as In Sickness and in Health by Doubleday in the US. [2] In a later interview, the author said that it was at the very bottom of the list of "my worst books". [ 3 ]
The Face of Trespass is a psychological thriller [1] novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1974. [2] The novel, largely told in flashbacks, follows Graham "Gray" Lanceton, a writer involved with a woman named Drusilla Browne who asks him to kill her wealthy husband. Lanceton becomes entangled in an intense, destructive affair ...
It also commented on the "often-dated feminist themes". Ruth Rendell later reported in an interview with Anthea Davey for Red Pepper that she had "had a go at dotty militant feminism" in An Unkindness of Ravens and as a result "I was described by one women's magazine as the greatest anti-feminist since Dashiell Hammett". [2]
First in a series written by Orczy, (and originally a 1903 drama written with her husband, ... P. D. James, and Ruth Rendell, to name just a few. Kate Atkinson, however, runs rings around her ...
Gallowglass is a 1990 novel by the British writer Ruth Rendell, written under ... Nina lives in a heavily guarded residence with her husband and many servants. ...
Kissing the Gunner's Daughter is a 1992 novel [1] by the British mystery writer Ruth Rendell, featuring the recurring character Inspector Reg Wexford. [2] The title of the book refers to historical corporal punishment in the Royal Navy where a sailor kissing the gunner's daughter was lashed to a cannon to receive a flogging.
To Fear a Painted Devil is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell published in 1965 by John Long Ltd in the UK and Doubleday in the US. [1] Her second book, it is a stand-alone crime thriller in which "there is less reliance on suspense and the main focus is on the motivation of the murderer". [2]